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** In ''"Revulsion,"'' on a Serosian starship, the holgram Dejaren is serving Torres a tray of food when he nearly steps on a considerable power cord exposed at one end. Torres had to warn him to "Watch out!" Later, when the hologram turned homicidal and corners Torres, she uses said power cord to destroy him.
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* AlwaysChaoticEvil: The Kazons, quasi-[[{{Expy}} Expies]] of the Klingons of earlier Trek series (minus the HonorBeforeReason).
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** The Caretaker gave them 5 years worth of power for the city before his death. Given how dependent on him the Ocampans were, its doubtful they could figure out for themselves a different power-source. The forcefield protecting them from outsiders will most likely fail as the power dwindles and they'll eventually have to leave for the surface... ''where the Kazon are.'' [[FridgeBrilliance This is probably why Kes is so pissed off in "Fury"]].
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** Ensign Samantha Wildman, Naomi's mother and a member of the science department.
** Lieutenant Joseph Carey, the NumberTwo engineer to B'Elanna Torres, [[spoiler: until he got killed off near the end of the series]].
** Lieutenant Ayala, though he never quite got to be an AscendedExtra.
** Ensign Samantha Wildman, Naomi's mother and a member of the science department.
** Lieutenant Joseph Carey, the NumberTwo engineer to B'Elanna Torres, [[spoiler: until he got killed off near the end of the series]].
** Lieutenant Ayala, though he never quite got to be an AscendedExtra.
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**** ... which runs into FridgeBrilliance when you remember the episode where Tuvok and Neelix were transporter-accident-melded into one being (Tuvix) -- what's to say Neelix didn't retain some of Tuvok's tactical knowledge?
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* AscendedExtra: Painfully averted by Lt. [[FanNickname "Extra-Man"]] Ayala. Ayala appears in 120 episodes out of 167, in all seven seasons. He speaks in exactly four of those episodes, and is only credited twice, never with a name. The mere act of establishing a name for the actor took some detective work. He's achieved a certain amount of MemeticBadass status among the fandom for simply managing to survive all seven seasons.
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* HeyIKnowYou
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** Seven often introduces herself, especially early-on, by her full Borg designation: Seven of Nine, Tertiary Adjunct of Unimatrix 01.
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* OutGambitted: [[spoiler:Kashyk in "Counterpoint". He thinks he's tricked Janeway into revealing the refugees she was hiding, but she sent them somewhere else.]]
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* {{Hypochondria}}: A characteristic of Harry's {{Expy}} in "Author, Author".
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* HeroicSociopath: Ensign Lon Suder (BradDourif) murders a coworker, and is locked in his quarters ("Meld"). During a siege of the ship ("Basics, Part 1 and 2"), he uses his murder skills to fight off the invaders, before finishing with a HeroicSacrifice.
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* SpaceDoesNotWorkThatWay: Parodied in "Thirty Days" where Proton is seen flying through outer space [[BatmanCanBreatheInSpace protected by a leather jacket and flying goggles]].
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* SpaceDoesNotWorkThatWay: Parodied in "Thirty Days" where Proton is seen flying through outer space [[BatmanCanBreatheInSpace flying through outer space]] protected by a [[AdventurerOutfit leather jacket and flying goggles]].
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** From various episodes throughout the series, we see how Tom Paris loves really retro stuff (toasters, jukeboxes, television sets, etc.). So he could probably fit well in this role too.
** From various episodes throughout the series, we see how Tom Paris loves really retro stuff (toasters, jukeboxes, television sets, etc.). So he could probably fit well in this role too.
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* DeusExMachina: [[spoiler:Janeway rewrites the program to have an alien ship come to their aid, giving Tuvok time to snag a phaser rifle.]] At the end of the episode, the characters are [[ConversationalTroping sitting around, talking about the program]] and Tuvok compliments Janeway on this move. "Who says deus ex machina is an outdated literary device?" she responds.
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** The USS Prometheus is a bleeding-edge experimental prototype which can travel at high warp, and ''split into three ships, each of which can attack individually'. If that's not a CoolStarship, nothing is.
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[[quoteright:235:The original cast (L-R): Neelix, Chakotay, Kim, Kes (above), Janeway, Paris, Tuvok, The Doctor, and Torres.]]
->"''There are three things to remember about being a Starship Captain. Keep your shirt tucked in, [[GoingDownWithTheShip go down with the ship]], and [[TheMenFirst never abandon a member of your crew]].''"
-->-- '''Captain Janeway'''
The third 'new generation' StarTrek, it ran for seven seasons, from January 1995 through May 2001. In the first episode, the [[CoolStarship USS Voyager]] was [[TheCallKnowsWhereYouLive pulled across the galaxy by an alien device]]. Janeway destroyed the device during a battle rather than let it be misused, stranding her ship seventy-five years' travel time from home.
For the next seven seasons, the Voyager looked for a shortcut [[TheHomewardJourney back to Earth]] while dodging or defeating the assortment of AliensAndMonsters. They even crossed paths with a pair of Ferengi that had been zapped to the Delta Quadrant back in ''[[StarTrekTheNextGeneration Next Generation]]'', at least one Romulan, and even another Starfleet vessel, also kidnapped by the Caretaker and trying to get back to the Federation.
Early on even the producers found a certain problem with the premise, in that the series had a singular goal of returning home. That meant while there was plenty of "Strange New Worlds" to discover, they were always looking home, and constantly missing [[JustEatGilligan opportunities for shortcuts]]. Another problem was the use of InfiniteSupplies. Early in the series, many fans quickly dubbed Voyager the HMS ResetButton; the conclusion of almost every episode usually resulted in a return to ''[[StatusQuoIsGod status quo ante]]''.
Interestingly, the show suffered from such inconsistent writing that even the ''actors'' complained; Kate Mulgrew mentioned that her character (the ship's captain) was [[DependingOnTheWriter never portrayed the same way from episode to episode]] (causing Janeway to switch between upholding the [[{{Alien Non-Interference Clause}} Prime Directive]] 'no matter the cost' in some episodes, and having no problem with breaking it whenever it proves even a ''minor'' inconvenience in others), and Robert Beltran's notoriously wooden acting has often been attributed to his contempt for the writing of his character and the plots, which he's expressed in several interviews. At least some of this has been ascribed to ExecutiveMeddling on the part of Paramount, hampering the production team on building a stronger show.
The show was a frustrating mix of genuinely good entertainment and "safe" old StarTrek stand-bys. Part of this was a predominance with episodes of the SpotlightStealingSquad between Seven-Of-Nine and The Doctor. The lackluster response to ''Voyager'' was actually a serious consideration to hold off on further StarTrek series ([[ExecutiveMeddling which was demanded anyway]]). But it was also the near-magical power of the technology in this series that made them decide upon a less-evolved {{prequel}} series in ''{{Enterprise}}''.
That said, ''Voyager'' was notable for taking on stories and subjects that even its very daring sister series, ''Deep Space Nine'', didn't touch -- the crew encountered a Starfleet vessel that was willing to totally discard its Federation principles for the sake of getting home, faced the Borg on their home turf, and even tackled the moral and ethical implications of assisting in a suicide.
''Voyager'' is known throughout ''Trek'' fandom as a series that featured an episode so ''incredibly'' sub-par that both the fans ''and the producers'' unofficially struck it from canon after it aired (unless you count an offhand comment in a later episode...which ''[[CanonDiscontinuity officially]]'' strikes it from canon).
However, ''Voyager'' is also widely considered to have the most beautiful and evocative [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gX9FU8bmxQs theme music]] the franchise has ever produced (albeit not the most ''iconic''; that honor goes to TOS and TNG). It has been said that ''Voyager'''s theme is the music to what the show ''should'' have been.
If you want to read something like an AbridgedSeries or MysteryScienceTheater3000 version, try FiveMinuteVoyager.
Want reviews of this? No problem, just ask Chuck Sonnenburg at [[SFDebris SF Debris!]]
And see also the ''StarTrekVoyagerRelaunch'' for the show's continuation in novel form.
The first game in the ''StarTrekEliteForce'' video game series takes place in this show, and the actors from the show provide their voices for their counterparts (except Jeri Ryan as Seven-Of-Nine, until an expansion pack including her was released).
''Voyager'' now has a [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/crowner.php/BestEpisode/StarTrekVoyager best episode crowner]]!
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!!This show provides examples of the following tropes:
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* ActingForTwo: "Faces". "Deadlock", "11:59", "Life Line", "Endgame"
* AlienAbduction: How they ended up in the Delta Quadrant in the first place in "Caretaker". Plus there's the Vidiians seeking to [[OrganTheft steal the crew's organs]] to replace their own diseased tissue. And "The 37's", abducted from the opposite side of the galaxy because WeWillUseManualLaborInTheFuture. Also "Heroes and Demons" and "Displaced".
* AncientAstronauts: "Tattoo"
* BackToFront: "Before and After"
* BadFuture: "[[{{Mundanization}} Future's End]]", "Timeless", "Endgame".
* BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy: Amelia Earhart Was Abducted By Space Aliens ("The 37's").
* BiologicalMashUp: [[TeleporterAccident "Tuvix"]]
* BodySnatcher: [[PeoplePuppets "Cathexis"]], [[GrandTheftMe "Warlord"]], [[BodySurf "Vis-Ã -Vis"]].
* TheBoxingEpisode: "The Fight"
* {{Brainwashed}}: "Persistence of Vision", [[BugWar "Nemesis"]], [[LotusEaterMachine "Bliss"]], "Repression", "Workforce".
* TheBusCameBack: "Fury"
* TheChainsOfCommanding: "Night", "Year of Hell", "[[HourglassPlot Equinox]]", "Endgame".
* DeathSeeker (or DrivenToSuicide): A member of the Q Continuum argues for the right to commit suicide in [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin "Death Wish"]]. Also B'Elanna Torres in "Extreme Risk" and Neelix in "Mortal Coil". And apparently Janeway, given her frequent threats to [[SelfDestructMechanism blow up]] Voyager or [[DebateAndSwitch fly it into binary pulsars]].
* [[DieHardOnAnX Die Hard on a Spaceship]]: "Basics, Part II", "Macrocosm", "The Killing Game".
* [[DoAndroidsDream Do Holograms Dream]]: "Projections", "Prototype", "The Swarm", [[AIIsACrapshoot "The Darkling", "Revulsion"]], "Real Life", "Flesh and Blood", "Life Line", "Someone To Watch Over Me", "Tinker Tenor Doctor Spy", "Author Author".
* DownerEnding: "Course: Oblivion", probably one of the few examples of the trope in Star Trek.
* EggMcGuffin: "Partutition"
* EnsignNewbie: "Nightingale"
* EpicRace: "Drive"
* ForcedPrizeFight: "Tsunkatse" (featuring a cameo by DwayneJohnson)
* GodGuise: "False Profits", "Muse" (subverted in that the crew inspire a [[FanFiction play]] as opposed to a religion).
* GrandFinale: "Endgame"
* HeroicSociopath: Ensign Lon Suder (BradDourif) murders a coworker, and is locked in his quarters ("Meld"). During a siege of the ship ("Basics, Part 1 and 2"), he uses his murder skills to fight off the invaders, before finishing with a HeroicSacrifice.
* HumansAreBastards: "Tattoo", "[[PoweredByAForsakenChild Equinox]]".
* [[IdenticalGrandson Identical Granddaughter]]: "11:59", or identical great-great-great... well, you get the idea. The ancestral love interest bears a strong resemblance to Janeway's former love, as well.
* TheInfinite: "Threshold" where Tom Paris designs and builds an engine to go [[MemeticMutation To Infinity And Beyond]]!! As a [[HitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy drive the infinite turns out to be improbable]] though.
* InterspeciesRomance: Apart from scenes involving the OfficialCouple there's "Elogium" (where a SpaceWhale tries to hump the ship!), "Favourite Son", [[AboveTheInfluence "Blood Fever"]], "The Q and the Grey" ("With a Q, foreplay can last for ''decades''!"), "Unforgettable", "In The Flesh", "Counterpoint", "Gravity", and "The Disease" (it's not what you think).
* InterstellarWeapon: Both "Dreadnought" and "Warhead" revolved around trying to keep interstellar missiles from blowing up innocent people.
* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: "Flesh and Blood", "[[EvilCounterpart Equinox]]". A basic plot point in "[[NotQuiteTheRightThing Scorpion]]".
* KissMeIAmVirtual: "Persistence of Vision", "Lifesigns", "Alter Ego", "Real Life", [[PygmalionPlot "Someone to Watch Over Me"]], "Tinker Tenor Doctor Spy", [[PygmalionSnapBack "Fair Haven"]], "Spirit Folk", "Muse", "Body & Soul", "Workforce", "Human Error".
* MadeForTVMovie: "Dark Frontier" was written and aired as a TV movie, though it was filmed as a normal two-part episode. "Flesh and Blood" was also aired as a TV movie, though it was neither written nor filmed as such.
* MagicVersusScience: "Sacred Ground".
* MasterOfIllusion: "Persistence of Vision", "Coda", "The Thaw", "Flashback", "Worse Case Scenario", [[PinchMe "Waking Moments"]], [[PuttingOnTheReich "The Killing Game"]], "The Fight", "Bliss". Also "Remember", "Memorial" and "Living Witness" which explore the nature of [[HistoryMarchesOn truth in history]].
* MedicalDrama: "Scientific Method", "Nothing Human", "Latent Image", "Critical Care", "Imperfection", "Lineage".
* MonsterClown: "The Thaw" features one as the anthropomorphic personification of fear.
* TheMutiny: "Worst Case Scenario", [[TheRemnant "Repression"]].
* PostMortemComeback: In "Worst Case Scenario" (S3 E25), a highly adaptive hologram of Seska enters the program and manipulates it to her own ends.
* ThePlague: "Macrocosm". Plus any episode involving Vidiians.
* RelationshipResetButton: "Unforgettable".
* RipVanWinkle: "Living Witness", "Timeless"
* SchrodingersButterfly: "Waking Moments"
* SpaceElevator: "Rise"
* SubspaceAnsible: Seeing as Voyager is a ''lot'' further out than other Federation vessels, and has been presumed destroyed, even getting a message home is important to the crew. "Eye of the Needle", "Message in A Bottle", "Hunters", "Pathfinder".
* TimeTravel: "[[MerlinSickness Time and Again]]", "Eye of the Needle", "[[ETGaveUsWiFi Future's End]]", [[MayflyDecemberRomance "Before]] [[BackToFront and After"]], "Year of Hell", "Relativity", "Shattered", "Endgame". Also "Non Sequitor" and "Deadlock" (alternate timelines).
* TomatoInTheMirror: "Course: Oblivion"
* TreacherousSpiritChase: "Coda"
* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: "11:59"
* TwiceToldTale: "Flashback" provides one for ''StarTrekVITheUndiscoveredCountry''. Unfortunately, there are some obvious continuity errors between the episode and the movie. Most notably, the episode features the death of a background crew member who appears alive in "later" scenes of the movie.
* VirtualCelebrity: "Virtuoso"
* WeaponOfMassDestruction: [[MisguidedMissile "Dreadnought", "Warhead"]], [[PersonOfMassDestruction "Childs Play"]] plus the Krenim temporal weapon-ship in "Year of Hell", and nine Species 8472 [[LivingShip bioships]] linking up to destroy an entire Borg planet in "Scorpion".
* WhatTheHellHero: "[[ExpendableClone Tuvix]]", "Thirty Days", "Scorpion", "Equinox, Part II".
* WriterOnBoard: "Muse" is basically a plea for understanding from the writers of this [[SnarkBait oft-criticized series]], showing how they're pulled between the desire to create meaningful works of art, the need to satisfy those paying their wages, and the demands of the audience for action and romance - told via a poet on a primitive warlike world who's trying to [[FanFiction write a play based on Voyager's logs]].
* WronglyAccused: "Ex Post Facto", "State of Flux", "The Chute", "Living Witness", "Random Thoughts".
* XanatosGambit: The best example is "Counterpoint". [[spoiler: ''Voyager'' is transporting telepaths through Devore space, where telepaths are automatically arrested, along with those helping them. Kashyk arrives and informs the crew that he knows what they're doing and how they plan to escape. He also says he's defecting and wants to help them avoid a Devore planned for them. If the crew believes him, then he betray them at a crucial moment. If the turn him away, he turens them in. If they do something to him, his superiors will wonder what happened and come looking for him.]] He'd win no matter what they did. [[spoiler: Except he was OutGambitted by Janeway, who was prepared for his deception. If he was telling the truth, great, she'd be happy to have him onboard. If he wasn't, she was ready.]]
** Also seen in [[CurseOfBabel "Think Tank"]], where Janeway thinks that the Hazari are covering every escape route and the ones that don't appear covered are traps, screwing the ship no matter which path they choose. [[spoiler: Then its inverted on the Hazari's employers, who are screwed no matter what ''they'' do.]]
** "Dark Frontier", [[spoiler: the borg wanted Seven of Nine to be severed earlier to develop a human perspective. If the federation hadn't taken the bait, they lose nothing. In the episode itself, the Borg Queen's plan. If Seven returns them, they leave Voyager alone. If not, they assimilate Voyager during the mission. If Seven warns Voyager, than the borg recover the transwarp coil that Voyager planned on stealing. ]] and "Endgame".
* YearInsideHourOutside: "Gravity", "Blink of an Eye".
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* AgentScully: Played with in "Blink of an Eye", with two scientists trying to discover if there's anyone on board Voyager, which has been in their sky for their civilisation's entire history due to YearInsideHourOutside. The Scully doubts there's anyone on board, but when the Mulder asks why he's on the mission in the first place, he adds that he doubts everything - including his own doubts.
* AGodAmI: Invoked by a group of Ferengi who ended up getting stuck in the Delta Quadrant in a similar fashion that Voyager did. They spent no time tricking and manipulating a planet's native race to start following the Rules of Acquisition and making them believe that the Ferengi were gods and prophets to the gods.
* AIIsACrapshoot: If the Doctor's programming isn't getting messed with, then it's a sentient WeaponOfMassDestruction or holograms with [[TurnedAgainstTheirMasters unsatisfactory employer relations]] who are causing the problem.
* AllTheMyriadWays, leading to Harry Kim becoming his own SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute.
* AlternateUniverse
* AlwaysChaoticEvil: the Kazon and the Borg
* AlwaysSaveTheGirl: Janeway's willingness to risk everything to save Seven of Nine was to prove [[LesYay fertile ground]] for J/7 SlashFic writers.
* AndIMustScream: In the early episodes, the Doctor couldn't shut off his own program. This annoyed him when people would just leave the room without deactivating him. In one instance, he specifically requests that, should the crew choose to abandon the ship for any reason, they take the time to shut him off before they leave. If they didn't, he'd be stuck in Sickbay until power failed, completely alone.
* AnotherMansTerror: Paris has this forced upon him in "Ex Post Facto".
* AttackPatternAlpha ([[PlayingWithATrope Played with]] by the Doctor in "Message in a Bottle")
* BackForTheDead: Poor Joe Carey in the final season. He reappears after a long absence only to be the last crew member killed before Voyager makes it home a few episodes later.
* BelligerentSexualTension: The romance between Tom Paris and B'Elanna Torres is every inch this trope.
* BerserkButton:
** For the love of all things holy, enemies must leave Janeway's crew ''alone!''
** Any character causing harm to Neelix in front of Kes tends to end up bleeding from the eyeballs.
** Neelix often acts as this to Tuvok. You can tell its taking every bit of his Vulcan restraint not to strangle him. In fact, in one episode, he actually ''does so''... or seems to anyway, only to then utter the words "Computer, end holodeck program."
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Harry Kim in "The Chute".
** Neelix in some episodes, particularly "Repentance". He may seem like your average [[TheScrappy annoying]] or [[YourMilageMayVary fun-loving]] {{Cloudcuckoolander}}, but do not mistake him for an idiot.
*** And then consider for a moment that whenever something goes horribly wrong and Tuvok is no longer capable of acting as security chief, it's always ''Neelix'' who is promoted to the position. That should tell you something about him.
** Kes is a very nice, polite young woman. She's also an immensely powerful psychic that can boil your blood by accident, and when someone takes over her body, she messes with him for several minutes of perceived time, only for him to wake up and realize that maybe a second passed.
** "Fury" takes this to its extreme limit, where a vengeful older-Kes powerwalks down a corridor that explodes from her mere presence.
* BigBad: Maje Culluh & Seska for the first two seasons, the Borg Queen for the last few.
* TheBigRace: In one episode, Tom and B'Elanna participate in a race with the Delta Flyer.
* BizarreAlienBiology: Kes (nine year lifespan, telepath, gives birth from a sac on her back, and when she reaches sexual maturity you rub her feet until her tongue swells up), [[SerkisFolk Species 8472]] (tripedal, five sexes, densely-coded DNA, emits a biogenic field that blocks scanning, and has an immune system that can stop Borg nanoprobes). But nothing tops the [[StarfishAliens cytoplasmic lifeform]] in "Nothing Human". The UniversalTranslator can't understand its language, the tricorder can't comprehend its biology, it controls a spaceship via biochemical secretions, can leap through a forcefield in a single bound, and uses B'Elanna Torres as an emergency life-support system.
* BodyHorror: The phage and Paris's transformation in ''Threshold.''
* BondOneLiner: Janeway delivers one in "Year of Hell" just before [[spoiler:[[RammingAlwaysWorks ramming her severely crippled ship]] into the timeline-altering weapon ship]]: "Time's up."
* BLAMEpisode: "Threshold".
* TheBlank: In "The Fight", Chakotay fights a being from a region of chaotic space; the being is wearing a boxing hoodie that hides his face, when the alien is finally revealed, he has no face, only a starfield.
* BrickJoke: Chakotay's bottle of cider in "Shattered."
* BrokenPedestal: A variation occurs with Doctor Zimmerman in "Life-Line". The Federation eventually came to regard the EMH program as a joke due to their poor bedside manner, writing them off in the end and repurposing the entire line into miners ([[FridgeHorror the fact this makes them a slave-race is ignored]]), leaving Zimmerman bitter and disillusioned that his greatest creation is now serving as manual labour, all sharing ''his'' face. Naturally he's not too happy when The Doctor shows up to attempt to treat him.
* CaffeineBulletTime: Strangely averted...
-->'''Janeway''': Coffee: the finest organic suspension ever devised. It's got me through the worst of the last three years. I beat the Borg with it.
* CallingTheOldManOut: The Doctor does this in "Life-Line" to his creator. Doctor Zimmerman constantly belittles him and dismisses his program as a failed experiment, eventually getting furious and demanding to know ''why'' the Doctor is trying to treat his terminal illness. The Doctor furiously counters back that ''he'' designed him that way and whether he likes it or not, he is ''a Doctor'' and he ''[[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming will]]'' treat him.
* TheCastShowoff: Jeri Ryan (Seven of Nine) sang on the show a couple of times. One episode even featured a duel with the Doctor and Seven singing a duet, in harmony.
* CanonDiscontinuity: The producers have stated that "Threshold" isn't canon...
** DiscontinuityNod: ...and later on Paris notes that he's never traveled in transwarp. To explicitly say in the show that it isn't considered canon.
** "Deuterium? You can get that anywhere!" is mentioned in one episode, seasons after the "running out of deuterium" stuff.
* CaptainErsatz: Originally the writers wanted to include the guest character of "Cadet Nicholas Locarno" from the ''[[StarTrekTheNextGeneration Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'' episode "The First Duty" as a regular. To avoid paying royalties to the writers of that episode -- and because Locarno was seen as fundamentally unredeemable -- a CaptainErsatz in the person of Tom Paris was created. Not only do both characters have a very similar {{backstory}} and personality, both are played by [=Robert Duncan McNeill=] as well.
* CharacterDevelopment: Limited to Seven, the Doctor, Kes, and a tiny smattering for Neelix and B'Elanna. Everyone else ended the show with pretty much the [[StaticCharacter personality they came in with]].
** Tom Paris started out an angry ex con with a chip on his shoulder and ended the series settled, reliable, and a hero being nurse, ace pilot, shuttle designer and a father with B'Elanna. Though his playfulness and older brother type relationship with Harry were persistent throughout the series.
* ChekhovsGun: The neural transciever in "Scorpion". The Borg attempt to use them on Janeway and Tuvok in order to link their thoughts to the hive mind; Chakotay later uses one to link his thoughts with Seven of Nine to distract her.
* ClipShow: Averted in "Before & After" (with Kes) and "Shattered" (with Chakotay and a first season Janeway) -- the protagonist visits various time periods during Voyager's journey without any actual footage from the episodes in question.
** The episode "The Fight" may not be a true clip show, but it at least deserves an honorable mention. [[spoiler:The ship is stuck in "chaotic space," the aliens which inhabit it communicate to Chakotay in his mind by splicing together words taken from other crew members from earlier in the episode.]]
* CombatPragmatist: After earlier being outsmarted by the [[EvilCounterpart Equinox's EMH]], The Doctor wins round two by simply telling the computer to [[CrowningMomentOfFunny delete it's programme]].
* CommunicationsOfficer: Harry Kim got a battlefield promotion to chief communications officer, despite only being (perpetually) an ensign.
* ConvergingStreamWeapon: Species 8472 has a weapon consisting of several ships that fire simultaneously to create one of these.
* [[CrapsackWorld Crapsack Quadrant]]: The Delta Quadrant.
* CreepyChild: Suspiria in "Cold Fire", the Borg children on their first appearance, Naomi Wildman in a nightmare sequence in "Dark Frontier" and, it was hinted on a couple of occasions, Kes ("Cold Fire", "[[FightingFromTheInside Warlord]]" and "Fury").
* {{Crossover}}: Barclay and Troi from "StarTrekTheNextGeneration"; Quark from "StarTrekDeepSpaceNine"; Captain Sulu from "[[StarTrekVI Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country]]". [[AlternateHistory Captain]] Geordi [=LaForge=] in the episode "Timeless"; Riker in "Death Wish".
* CuteMonsterGirl: Denara Pel, and pre-catsuit Seven of Nine.
* DanceOfRomance: Doc and Seven get one in "Someone to Watch Over Me"
* TheDanza: Kate Mulgrew was hired as a last minute replacement for ''Nicole'' Janeway (played by [[TheOtherMarty Geneviève Bujold]]) and she asked to have the first name changed to her full first name, Kathryn.
** Janeway's first name had originally been Katherine (note the different spelling) while the series was in development, but was changed to Nicole when the French-Canadian Bujold was cast in the role. The creators asked Mulgrew which of the two she would prefer, and she opted for a slightly altered version of the originally planned name.
* DeathIsCheap: The entire crew was offed twice. Every major character died at least once. The Harry Kim that made it home ''isn't even the original Harry Kim!''
** To clarify, an anomaly of the week duplicated the ship. Which leads to an even more disturbing alternative - the only "originals" who made it home were Harry, Naomi Wildman, and Seven of Nine. The crew never figured out which of the twin Voyagers was the original ship (if either one was). Harry and Naomi were the only two from the "other" ship who survived, while Seven joined the crew long after this incident.
* DependingOnTheWriter: It's arguable that one reason for the Personality Of The Week portrayal of Captain Janeway was that writers were conflicted between making the first female Trek captain [[RealWomenNeverWearDresses 'strong']] versus the desire for her to appear 'feminine'. Thus Janeway would veer between ActionGirl, [[GeneralRipper Self-Destruct-The-Ship-Crazy]], TeamMom, [[TheCaptain Staunch Leader]], [[TheChainsOfCommanding Noble Sufferer]], [[ShipTease Outrageous Flirt]], {{Celibate Hero}}ine, etc, etc, etc, much to actor Kate Mulgrew's irritation.
** This is frequently contrasted with how Sisko was treated in ''Deep Space Nine''. He wasn't "the black Captain" the way Janeway was "the female Captain", he was just TheCaptain.
** Some early interviews and show-related material indicate that the Janeway character was ''intensely'' examined, specifically to prevent Janeway from becoming nothing more than an ultra-feminist caricature; at the same time, a balance had to be found so that Janeway could maintain her femininity while in command. Hence, Janeway prefers being addressed as 'Captain' over 'sir' or 'ma'am' (which acknowledges that she ''is'' in command, but avoids gender politics entirely).
* {{Deprogram}}ming
* {{Determinator}}: Played with throughout the series, not in terms of an individual continuing despite horrific injuries, but with Janeway's let's-get-home-at-all-costs philosophy, which is switched on and off [[DependingOnTheWriter depending on whether it was raining]] the day the writers started on each script. See "Year of Hell" comparing the first timeline change, and consider how they could have ended up in that situation, to the last scene and the "Thanks, we'll go around" attitude.
** Also bear in mind this must be a regular bridge conversation. "How long until we get home?" "At current speeds 70 years." "Excellent we'll contin... Oh Shiny" Having just spotted a random celestial phenomena out the window.
* DittoAliens
* DoAndroidsDream: Quite a few (brilliantly done) episodes revolving around the holographic Doctor, including an episode where the Doctor simultaneously ponders this trope ''while doing it literally''.
* DoAnythingRobot: Seven's Borg implants served whatever purpose the plot needed them to, and her [[{{Nanomachines}} nanoprobes]] were like [[GreenRocks Swiss Army molecules]].
* DontExplainTheJoke In "Workforce" This is played straight from a brainwashed Tuvok.
* DownerEnding: In "Course: Oblivion", the crew appears to start dying mysteriously one by one. It's quickly determind the "crew" is actually the copies from the episode "Demon". When they realize what they are, they make a beeline back to the Demon Planet. [[spoiler:They didn't make it. To [[HumiliationConga add insult to injury]], the real ''Voyager'' passes through their vaporized remains without a clue.]]
* ElectronicSpeechImpediment: The computer on occasions. Also 'Satan's Robot' from "[[ShowWithinAShow The Adventures of Captain Proton!]]"
* EmotionalMaturityIsPhysicalMaturity: The Doctor, and the Ocampa.
* EnemyMine: Voyager teams up with the Kazon Nistrum sect, the Borg Collective, the Hirogen and several other Villains of the Week, not always successfully. Was supposed to be the original concept of the series, but the Starfleet/Maquis conflict was watered down so much that later episodes based on this schism appear ridiculous.
* EnemyWithin: In one episode the Doctor tries to expand his program by incorporating personality aspects of various historical figures who possessed great minds. He failed to realize that he would also incorporate the darker sides of their psyches, and develops an evil SplitPersonality who takes Kes hostage.
* EvilVersusEvil: The Borg vs. Species 8472
* EvilPlan: Seska, a BigBad fond of {{Railroading}}, is usually doing this.
* EvolutionaryLevels: The justification
* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: Just have a look at the episode titles.
* ExecutiveMeddling:
** Several scenes in the pilot had to be reshot because the studio vetoed Kate Mulgrew's hairstyle.
** The divisions between the Starfleet and Maquis officers were originally going to be more pronounced, but after the pilot, the network asked for this to be changed. The divisions were made more minor in Season 1 and largely ignored afterwards.
* ExpandedUniverse
* {{Expositron 9000}}: The ship's computer.
* FailsafeFailure
* FailureIsTheOnlyOption: There were several times the crew could have gotten back to the Alpha Quadrant but didn't, "False Profits" probably being the most egregious. The pilot is not actually a case of this, given that they would have needed several hours to bring the Array back online, which, given that they were under attack by ScaryDogmaticAliens with a damaged ship and a sizable reduction in crew, probably made using the Array less than tenable (note what Tuvok says here: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXmsdorYs24&feature=related around 9:21]]). However, given the way a lot of characters acted in later episodes, either she didn't divulge this bit of information or the crew got disillusioned and rejected that excuse.
** [[AvertedTrope Averted]] in later seasons; while ''Voyager'' never gets back to Earth ([[spoiler: until the GrandFinale]]), it does get progressively closer to the alpha quadrant, with most of the crew's attempts to cut a few years off of the journey succeeding.
* FallenHero: Captain Ransom of the "[[EvilCounterpart Equinox]]"
* FanServicePack: Getting Captain Janeway to [[LettingHerHairDown let her hair down]].
* FasterThanLightTravel: Voyager sought various means of getting home faster besides its already top-of-the-line warp drive, including transwarp, quantum slipstream technology, subspace corridors, and a graviton catapult which can catapult a vessel across space in the time it takes to say "catapult a vessel across space."
* FeministFantasy: The only Star Trek series with a female captain, 3 other female regulars (Torres, Kes, Seven) and a female BigBad (the Borg Queen).
** With the caveat that only 2 of the other 3 female regulars were usually there at the same time, since Seven wasn't a regular until Kes left the ship.
** Though Seven of Nine practically counts as two characters with all the focus she got during her time. Though its not really fair, plenty of fans have complained or at least joked that her years could be called "The Seven of Nine Show."
* FinalSolution: The Borg and "Species 8472" are trying to do this to each other. It's a war, but their goal is to exterminate each other's populations rather than achieving some kind of victory where the enemy's people still exists.
* FirstEpisodeSpoiler
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Many of the events depicted in "Year of Hell" are foreshadowed in "Before & After". This despite the fact that the character used to foreshadow the events (Kes) isn't there when they eventually happen.
* ForgottenPhlebotinum
* ForHappiness: As the self-appointed "Morale Officer", the character Neelix is constantly trying to live up to this trope.
* FourLinesAllWaiting: Primarily in season 1.
* FullNameBasis: Seven with Naomi Wildman.
* Even funnier when Seven addresses her as "Naomi Wildman, subunit of Ensign Samantha Wildman."
** Seven often introduces herself, especially early-on, by her full Borg designation: Seven of Nine, Tertiary Adjunct of Unimatrix 01.
* FunnyBackgroundEvent: In the early episode "The Cloud", The Doctor is on a viewscreen in the background giving information about a nebula, and then starts ranting about how the ship's presence is affecting it. Janeway "mutes" the viewscreen, then she and the other officers continue discussing about the nebula. At first, The Doctor continues ranting about the nebula, until he realizes he's on "mute". He gets annoyed and [[http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/File:The_Doctor_tries_to_get_attention.jpg starts pacing around his office for a good minute and a half]] before Tom Paris informs Janeway that The Doctor is still on viewscreen. Janeway finally "un-mutes" him.
** The same episode. Janeway hunts in the background for coffee while other main characters give exposition.
* FutureImperfect: Despite Paris being the most knowledgeable crew member of Earth's 20th century history, when Voyager is sent back in time to Earth circa 1996, even he gets a few cultural references, phrases, and mannerisms wrong.
* GenderIsNoObject: Starfleet is supposed to be purely integrated with gender no hindrance to attaining any position. The other series [[TheSmurfettePrinciple didn't quite meet]] this lofty principle. It wasn't until this series that a leading female character was Captain (although female captains and admirals did appear in minor, one-shot background roles from ''TheNextGeneration'' onward.
** Admiral Nechayev had a fair amount of screen time in 4 episodes of ''Star Trek: The Next Generation'' and 1 of ''Deep Space Nine''.
** An unnamed woman was seen to be the captain of the ''USS Saratoga'' as of 1986's Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home.
** DeepSpaceNine was a step forward from the previous series with Kira and Dax being major strong that were also competent and Kai Winn becoming more prominent in later seasons (about the normal ratio of cast, but a lot more useful and dynamic than the female regulars of previous series).
* GoodLookingPrivates: Even after seven years in the Delta Quadrant, we still see plenty of crewmembers played by extras who are clearly in their early twenties.
* GRatedDrug: Janeway's coffee addiction is a RunningGag.
-->'''Janeway:''' "Coffee. Black."\\
'''Neelix:''' "But Captain, the replicators are-"\\
'''Janeway:''' "Neelix, [[MustHaveCaffeine listen to me VERY carefully]], because I am only going to say this once: ''Coffee. Black.''"\\
'''Neelix:''' (serves coffee) "Now that I have your attention..."\\
'''Janeway:''' "Coffee first." (GiganticGulp)
** [[spoiler: Admiral Janeway]] questions why she ever gave it up in the final episode.
* TheGuardsMustBeCrazy: With the exception of Tuvok, the only function of Voyager's security personnel is to stand in the formal 'at ease' position, waiting for the person they're guarding to stun them senseless.
** Starfleet also has problems with doors. They still use a forcefield on the Brig, despite the many times we see it fail if the ship is under attack. This also doesn't excuse the fact that the one door they do have, the entrance ''doesn't even lock''.
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* HalfHumanHybrid: B'Elanna Torres, Naomi Wildman. Neelix is also 1/8th Mylean, but this only crops up in one episode.
** An argument could also be made for Seven, as she retains Borg implants even after being reclaimed from the collective.
* HeroicSacrifice / RedemptionEqualsDeath: When it was up to [[spoiler:Suder the repentant murderer]] to save the ship, he came through... but also died.
* [[HerCodeNameWasMarySue His Code Name Was Marty Stu]]: The Doctor wrote some horrifically painful holonovels where he saves the day over and over again. And lets not forget what happens when he tries to cultivate his own ability to daydream!
* HistoryMarchesOn: Used in-universe in "Living Witness". A society has ended up with an incredibly biased account of history when Voyager traversed their system hundreds of years before, depicting the crew as a gang of sadistic thugs and genocidal monsters. When a copy of the Doctor is encountered among some of the artifacts, he eventually manages to set the record straight, and influence the planet's two respective cultures to live in harmony.
* TheHomewardJourney
* HumanityEnsues:
** Seven of Nine started out as human, became a Borg as a kid, and was forcibly [[BroughtDownToNormal brought back down to human]] (more or less) by the crew of ''Voyager''. While initially not happy about it (to say the least), Captain Janeway guided her through the process of rediscovering her humanity through time, patience, and care.
** Also, it was impossible to communicate with Species 8472 before they started taking on human form, and afterwards we never saw them in their tripedal, purple-skinned, cross-pupilled EyesOfGold form again.
* HumansAreMorons: The episode "Virtuoso" introducedus to the Qomar, a [[RubberForeheadAliens Rubber Forehead Alien]] species highly dedicated to mathematics and sciences and far more advanced than the Federation, which the Qomar looks down upon in contempt. When the Doctor provides medical treatment for one of them, the Qomarian sarcastically asks if the process involves bloodletting. Even in an idealized future where humanity has overcome a good number of its flaws to become one of the most dominant space-fairing races, we're still finding aliens who think we're dumb and primitive.
* HumansAreWhite: Averted; though there are no black humans among the main characters, there is a Native American human (played by a Latino actor who claims mestizo -- part NA -- ancestry), a human of Asian origins (actor Asian-American), B'Elanna's actress is Hispanic (and the character canonically has a Hispanic dad), and Tuvok is a black ''Vulcan''.
** Tuvok also marks the beginning of a ''wider'' aversion to this trope when it comes to Vulcans; apparently the writers realized that a sunny, arid planet would favor people with a lot of melanin (Well, [[RubberForeheadAliens melanin with some forehead wrinkles]]). After Tuvok's debut, ''every'' Vulcan depicted on screen was at least "bronzed" in appearance.
* InfantImmortality: Only in parallel-yet-simultaneous realities. [[spoiler:Voyager is copied due to some strange phenomenon; newly-born Naomi Wildman dies and is replaced by the surviving copy from the doomed version of the ship.]]
* InferredHolocaust: See TerminallyDependentSociety for possible implications of the fate of the Ocampans after the death of the Caretaker.
* InfiniteSupplies: Sometimes played infamously straight, sometimes completely ignored... Sometimes one in one episode and the other in another. ''Voyager'' is one of the worst offenders for this trope.
** Actually done by the website [[http://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/inconsistencies/inconsistencies-voy.htm Ex Astris Scientia]] in their Voyager episode guide; Voyager lost at between 10 and 17 shuttlecraft and one Delta Flyer, and used at least 93 photon torpedoes when an early episode explicitly states that they can hold a maximum of 40 and have no way to replace them. However, they routinely take on supplies - either by jerry-rigged self-purifying raw materials or buying them at friendly space stations ("Fair Trade" "Survival Instinct") - it isn't that hard to assume that SOMEONE in the delta quadrant can manufacture photon torpedoes or supply the equipment and parts necessary, with the same going for shuttlecraft.
** How about the infinite [[RedShirt Johnny Nobody]] crewmembers? The original crew compliment was 141 at the beginning of "Caretaker". "The 37's" gives the combined Maquis/Starfleet crew count as 152. And yet we see so many different background filling extras (in the canteen ALONE, besides anywhere else) that one has to wonder whether it was deliberate...
** Well [[AcceptableBreaksfromReality give them a break]]. They're not going to use the same hundred-odd background actors over a ''seven year'' series.
*** There were however consistent with Lt [[FanNickname "Extra-Man"]] Ayala who appeared in over 120 of the 168 episodes and all seven series as a former-Maquis tactical/security officer. Lt Carey also often appeared as a recurring extra in engineering [[spoiler: before they killed him off]].
* InsaneTrollLogic: Used by Seven of Nine in ''The Voyager Conspiracy,'' leading her to come to a different conclusion every time she looked over the same data.
* TheJohnHenry: In one episode Seven is this, strangely enough. Harry Kim wants a tool to remove something from a Jeffries Tube; Seven suggests a "radical dislocation" which translates as yanking it out. No machinery not already built in needed...
** From various episodes throughout the series, we see how Tom Paris loves really retro stuff (toasters, jukeboxes, television sets, etc.). So he could probably fit well in this role too.
* [[JustEatGilligan Just Screw Q]]: At one point, Q hints that Voyager would get home a lot quicker if its captain formed a baby with him. As a feminist icon, Janeway rightly refuses to use her body as a bargaining chip. But in later episodes, so much emphasis was placed on how much she's willing to sacrifice to get her crew home that fans couldn't help but wonder why she didn't just boff the jerk.
** Just screwing Q is one thing, and if was just that, Janeway would have likely done it, but ''having a child with him'' this way is something else entirely. Even '''''ScifiDebris''''' points this out, and this is the guy who consistently goes out of his way to [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation paint Janeway as a]] VillainProtagonist.
* KnightKnaveAndSquire: This type of relationship is present between Janeway, Paris and Kim with Squire Kim as the wet-behind-the-ears EnsignNewbie, Knave Paris as the pragmatist who's trying to influence Kim and Knight Janeway as the [[TeamMom moral beacon]] for Kim and the rest of the crew.
* LastMinuteHookup: Seven and Chakotay. Regarded as a CrackPairing by some fans as there had been no previous {{UST}} between the two (except in a holodeck fantasy); in fact the producers had even rejected the suggestion that this happen when Seven and Chakotay were stranded on a planet together only a couple of episodes before they hooked up in "Endgame".
* LettingHerHairDown: Janeway and Kes
** Seven also does this on a few occasions.
* LivingShip: Voyager has [[AppliedPhlebotinum Neural Gel Packs]], which were probably intended to act like organic brains or at least small computers. Supposedly they were cutting-edge tech, as Voyager was an advanced ship when it was completed.
** Of course, they were used several times as a plot complication generator by having them [[PhlebotinumBreakdown "get an infection."]] Janeway eventually ordered Torres to replace them with conventional circuits, but the ship never seemed to be any less cutting-edge afterward.
*** The Gel Packs got fixed in that exact same episode.
** Species 8472 were introduced in Voyager, and they had completely organic living ships. Not even the Borg could stand up against one of those babies.
* LongestPregnancyEver: Ensign Wildman - already pregnant in the pilot episode, gives birth mid-Season 2.
** The Doctor comments on this in the episode "Fury", mentioning that members of Ensign Wildman's husband's species have a gestation that is twice as long as that of a human.
** And even more ironic, considering that Naomi had a 15 month gestation, then seemed to age 3-4 years between series 4 and 5.
*** When Naomi's born, The Doctor mentions that her teeth will begin appearing within a month. Given this relatively accelerated growth rate, it is not unreasonable to assume that she may age at a naturally slightly accelerated rate.
** [[AvertedTrope Averted]] in the episode "Drone", a 29th-century Borg drone goes from tissue sample to fetus to full-grown adult in a day.
* LongTitle: In-universe, Naomi's essay about "The weird planet where time moved very fast and so did the people who lived there". Seven helps her condense it.
* LostTechnology: In both "Message In A Bottle" and "Hunters," Voyager comes across a vast abandoned network of ancient relay stations (each powered by its own black hole!), enabling them to make contact with Starfleet on the other side of the galaxy. One little mistake and [[NiceJobBreakingItHero the entire network shut down.]]
* LudicrousSpeed: Going past the speed limit in "Threshold" [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext makes you go crazy, spit out your tongue, and eventually mutate into a large salamander]].
** But not before kidnapping your captain and taking her to an alien planet, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin so she can mutate and you can have children with her.]]
* TheMainCharactersDoEverything: A ''Star Trek'' staple, really, but ''Voyager'' really takes it to the next level. Don't be surprised if Janeway decides to fly off the ship with her first officer on ''routine patrol duty'', leaving the impulsive and unreliable Half-Klingon rebel in command.
* MateOrDie: Yup, this returns with a twist in "Blood Fever" [[spoiler:when young background Vulcan officer Vorik tries to force himself on B'Elanna Torres during his pon farr, leading her to suffer the blood fever as well.]] This is [[{{Shipping}} the episode that launched millions of Torres/Paris shippers]].
** Subverted in a later episode where Tuvok shrugs off the pon farr like a bad head cold, even though all efforts to 'resolve' the situation (short of having sex) had failed.
*** He ''does'' have a little help from the holodeck, courtesy of Tom Paris (who makes the case that technically if the hologram is of your wife, it's not cheating).
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: features prominently in a great many episodes, but especially in "Coda" in which Janeway has one of those near-death experiences known to some of us. Is Captain Janeway's experience really just another first contact with a strange alien species (which ''was'' detectable on a medical tricorder scan of her cortex), or (far from the first) contact with someone from the afterlife? The story reports, you decide.
** Just to make things more interesting, one of those unstable time loops we've seen in other StarTrek series' episodes is also suggested early on, and if the "magic" explanation is true, [[spoiler: "Admiral Janeway" would actually be a demon come to drag Captain Janeway to Hell. The flames seen coming from what he calls his matrix would certainly support this, and Janeway herself tells him "Go back to Hell, coward!"]]
* MindRape: Janeway is revealed to have done this to the Doctor in "Latent Image" after he suffered a breakdown. Janeway even justifies her actions because technically the Doctor ''isn't'' human, so she was just ''fixing him''. It takes WhatTheHellHero speeches before she sees why the Doctor is so horrified by her actions.
** It becomes HarsherInHindsight that the third episode, "Time and Again" had Janeway mention she was considering reprogramming the Doctor just because he was... ''annoying''
** "Memorial" where an alien device Mind Rapes crew members into experiencing a massacre (in actual fact, a more effective war memorial). At the end of the episode Janeway orders the device refuelled so it can go on to MindRape many more people for at least 300 years. She does however also leave a beacon some distance away to warn people about what is about to happen to them.
* TheMole: [[spoiler:Seska, a Bajoran who turns out to be a Cardassian spy infiltrating the Maquis.]]
** There was another ex-Maquis who [[spoiler:routinely reported to the Kazon-Nistrim sect, passing vital information about Voyager's goings-on to Seska.]]
** And of course, Tuvok begins the series as a Starfleet officer secretly infiltrating the Maquis. As Chakotay put it, "Was anyone on that ship working for me?"
* MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate: Crell Moset.
** The EMH aboard the USS Equinox had his "[[MoralityChip ethical subroutines]]" removed. It shows.
* MortalityEnsues: Q does it to q at one point; it's also a result of suppressing Seven's Borg nanotech.
* MST3KMantra: Invoked in "Timeless" -- Harry Kim tries to make sense of how the future version of himself could have sent the present-day Seven of Nine instructions on how to save the ship, since the future Harry's timeline was erased and he will not exist to send the instructions, resulting in an apparent GrandfatherParadox. Janeway just tells him not to bother trying to work it out, since he'll likely only succeed in giving himself a headache.
** "Deadlock" gives us this gem:
--> '''Janeway:''' "We're Starfleet officers, Harry. [[LampshadeHanging Weird is part of the job.]]"
* MyHovercraftIsFullOfEels: From "Ashes to Ashes":
--> '''Kim:''' "'Vien'ke debala, Jhet'leya.' I taught myself to say a few words in Kobali."
--> '''Ensign Lyndsay Ballard:''' "That's very sweet of you, but you just told me the comets are tiresome."
** Janeway's [[CharacterTics body language]] nearly causes a diplomatic incident at one stage.
* MySensorsIndicateYouWantToTapThat: Several examples:
** The Doctor makes very effective use of the sickbay sensors with Tom Paris.
** Seven of Nine's Borg implants may not be so precise, but she's very observant and can tell when Harry Kim is putting the moves on her.
** Subverted with Icheb, who's not as observant as Seven, and whose sensors give him a false reading from B'Elanna Torres.
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[[folder:Tropes N-S]]
* NegativeSpaceWedgie: These served as the MonsterOfTheWeek for many Voyager episodes.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: One of their worst offenses (if not the first) was [[spoiler:inadvertently destroying the alien relay station that put them back in communication with the Alpha Quadrant]] while trying to fight off some bad guys. Fortunately, they found others that didn't get destroyed as they continued their journey.
* NothingIsTheSameAnymore: Reginald Barclay on Earth found a way to establish regular contact with ''Voyager'' in the final seasons, thus allowing the ship to have tactical and emotional support from home that was not possible before.
* NotRareOverThere: Early in the series, they're in an area of space where water is the go-to commodity. Our heroes can make all they want (within reason) and find themselves a common target because of it.
* NotSoDifferent: After meeting Doc Zimmerman, Troi says she can see where the Doctor got his ego from.
* OddFriendship: Seven and Naomi...Seven and the Doctor...Seven and anyone...
** Subverted with Neelix and Tuvok. Neelix tries so, so, so hard to be "Mr. Vulcan's" friend, but Tuvok's response is barely concealed contempt and sarcasm. And honestly, this is [[AlienScrappy Neelix]] we're talking about here, can you blame him?
*** When Tuvok is afraid he's lost his self-control and is testing his restraint in the holodeck, guess which crewmember he simulates on the grounds that he's most likely to push him to breaking point! To make matters worse, he did not have to program the holographic version of Nelix to be any different than normal. This implies that if it weren't for the intense logical training all Vulcans go through, he would have murdered Nelix a long time ago.
*** In Neelix's defense, Tuvok ''had'' just mind-melded with a SerialKiller.
* OfficialCouple: Neelix and Kes, then Tom Paris and B'Elanna Torres.
* OnceForYesTwiceForNo: A nebula alien, that learns to communicate only through the set phrases of the ship's computer.
* OnlySaneMan: Often this is either Tom Paris, or the Doctor.
** In the latter's case, when as the ''Emergency Command Hologram'' in the episode "Workforce", the Doctor's first response to being told that Voyager will be boarded and forcibly seized, is to [[CombatPragmatist immediately]] [[WhyDontYouJustShootThem open fire]] and cripple the enemy ship. In comparison, Janeway and Chakotay usually only return fire when the shields are down to 24% and several consoles have exploded.
** The Doctor's reaction in "Time and Again" when he realises no-one told informed him that Voyager was now carrying two alien passengers, Neelix and Kes. Oh and 80 Maquis now serve as part of the new crew. And he can't contact Captain Janeway because she's down on the planet below. Oh... and she is currently ''missing''.
--> '''Doctor''': It seems I've found myself on the ''voyage of the damned.''
* OrganTheft: Neelix has his lungs stolen via teleporters, forcing the Doctor to create temporary HardLight substitutes. The Vidiians actively engaged in this as it was the ''only'' way for them to survive the Phage that afflicted their entire race... [[spoiler: That is until a Think Tank later gave them a permanent cure for the right price.]]
* OrwellianEditor: Janeway in "Latent Image" repeatedly attempts to delete the Doctor's memories and even ordered all evidence of Ensign Jetal to be ''erased from existence''.
* OtherMeAnnoysMe: As SFDebris noted about whenever Janeway met various dopplegangers;
--> '''SFDebris''': Whenever we get two Janeways in the same room, they will ''always'' argue with one another.
* OutgrownSuchSillySuperstitions: Often averted with Chakotay's Native American spirituality and some explorations of other odd species' religions. The episode "False Profits" parodied this trope to Hell and back, however, with a Bronze Age civilization venerating two Ferengi refugees as their sages (sort of ersatz deities) because their crash-landing's appearance was a lot like something prophesied in one of their sacred poems. All efforts to remove the Ferengi failed until the Voyager's crew realized the same poem ended with the appearance of certain easily-arranged celestial signs and the ascension of the sages back into the heavens, all of which could be arranged using some futuristic flares and transporter technology. Since technically this means every one of the prophecies came true, there was arguably nothing to outgrow about these people's "silly superstitions" at all!
** To add to the humor, this also parodied BurnTheWitch as the joyous townspeople, spurred by the mention of their sages being taken up on "wings of flame" in the prophecy, enthusiastically rush to honor their sages by bundling them all together with some firewood and lighting the fire. Since they're beamed out before they can be burned, they truly do ascend into the heavens.
** It's implied that while many do still believe in mythology, it may not be the truth, as seen in the episode 'Mortal Coil' where Neelix dies (he gets better) and is upset he didn't experience an afterlife.
** Played straight in "Blink of an Eye" where Voyager is trapped in orbit over a planet where time moves rapidly, becoming worshiped as a deity by the inhabitants called "the Groundshaker" after their attempt to leave causes violent earthquakes. As we see time on the planet progress, the people invent telescopes and come to dub Voyager as "The Skyship", which by the time they've entered the Space Age, is no longer believed to be the home of their Gods, but merely an advanced spacecraft that houses alien beings.
* PlanetOfHats: Kazon (GangBangers [[RecycledINSPACE IN SPACE!]]), Vidiians ([[ThePlague diseased]] [[HumanResources organ pirates]]), Malon (galactic [[LandfillBeyondTheStars garbage dumpers]]), Hirogen (a culture based on [[BloodSport hunting sentient species]]), the Swarm (a nameless xenophobic...swarm), and the Devore Imperium (xenophobic, telepath-hating militarists, though in this case their uniformity is used to highlight the individual charm of Inspector Kashyk).
* PlankGag: In the episode "Suvival Instinct", Chakotay tried to lug a huge piece of alien sports equipment across the bridge and nearly whacked a visiting alien with it.
* PlausibleDeniability: Eugenics Wars? What are they?
** It probably doesn't help that the Eugenics Wars were supposedly occurring ''at the same time the series aired in real life''.
* PrematureEulogy: Of the [[{{Narm}} Narmy]] kind. One glaring example is in the episode ''Coda'' where Janeway receives four whole minutes of this while floating between life and death, watching it play out. It's to be expected in a show where people die and come back to life every week.
* PrimAndProperBun:
** [[http://memory-alpha.org/wiki/File:Kathryn_Janeway,_2371.jpg Captain Janeway]] had this style for most of the first season. which was known as [[FanNickname The Bun of Steel]]
** The emotionless and formal Seven of Nine used a French pleat for her first 3 seasons on the show.
* PrinciplesZealot: While Janeway has her moments, Seven Of Nine is surely the local queen of this trope. The Doctor also tries to do this once or twice.
* PropheticName: The Intrepid-class ''USS Voyager'' herself. Because the Cowardly-class ''USS Stayathome'' just wouldn't have had the same ring to it.
* PsychicPowers: Kes, sometimes Tuvok.
* QuietlyPerformingSisterShow: As mentioned in the bit at the top, the fans and critics weren't too pleased with the show, but it got good ratings.
* RammingAlwaysWorks: From "Year in Hell": "[[BondOneLiner Time's up]]."
** From "Parallax": "Sometimes you just have to punch your way through."
* RealLifeRelative: Q's "[[YoungerThanTheyLook teenage]]" son was played by John [=DeLancie's=] actual son Keegan [=DeLancie=]. This was apparently somewhat of an accident; Keegan happened to be among the actors being considered for the role and the producers made it clear they didn't want him cast just for the joke. As it turned out Keegan won them over on the part and the existing Father/Son dynamic only made the episode better.
* RedShirt: Averted in the early seasons by giving some screen time to crewmembers who were slated for death in later episodes (i.e. Hogan, Jonas, Carey). But eventually they reverted to bumping off anonymous ensigns by the shuttleload. A notable subversion however occurs in "Latent Image" [[spoiler:where the Doctor is guilt-ridden over his choice to save Harry Kim as opposed to the expendable crewmember.]]
** Joe Carey might be considered a subversion as well. Despite disappearing for years at a time except for flashbacks, the character makes it all the way to the final season before he's killed on an away mission. He is in fact the [[{{Retirony}} last casualty before Voyager makes it back home]]. Most redshirts don't last for the entirety of a series run.
* ReligiousRobot: "Flesh and Blood" is about sentient holograms (also known as photonic lifeforms) rising up against their creators. Their leader believes in the Bajoran faith and spends his free time praying to the prophets.
* ResetButton: Many, many times.
** The reset featured in "Year of Hell" is one of the few fans of the show won't groan at, simply because it was too damn awesome.
* TheRevolutionWillNotBeVilified: Averted in "Resistance", but somehow there's never any mention of the Maquis' terrorist origins. Except for [[SociopathicSoldier Suder]] of course.
** At one point Chakotay, a Maquis member who fought to protect his land from the Cardassians, says something like "A man does not own land.", proving himself either to have changed his mind or to be somewhat of a hypocrite.
* ARiddleWrappedInAMysteryInsideAnEnigma: In the episode "Riddles," The Doctor refers to the Vulcan brain as "a puzzle wrapped inside an enigma housed inside a cranium."
* {{Robosexual}}: The EMH apparently gets around, especially in one of his TimeSkip episodes.
* RunningGag: Every single pot roast mentioned on the series was burnt to hell.
* SceneryPorn: The [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ij1TDX6WH4 opening title sequence]] is ''gorgeous''.
* SerkisFolk: Species 8472, and the aliens in "Equinox".
* SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale: Think about how large the Voyager would have to be to cast that reflection on the rings of the planet in the opening titles...
* SexyDiscretionShot: An episode involving one of the Doctor's romances had one that was so discreet that even Robert Picardo didn't know about it until a much later episode referenced his having had sex and he asked the writers about it.
* ShinyLookingSpaceships: USS Voyager
* ShownTheirWork: In "Meld," the death of Ensign Darwin is proven as a murder using real forensic science rather than made-up technobabble, which is frankly a rarity on the later Star Trek shows.
** On the other hand the Doctor says "The DNA doesn't lie." This has never stopped defence attorneys.
*** Though it does help that Federation forensics technology is demonstrably better than ours is.
* ShowWithinAShow: In several episodes Janeway enters a holodeck program that was apparently going to turn out to be a ghost story, but [[AbortedArc this got dropped]] (it didn't help that it was being told slowly over the teasers for several episodes, and had nothing to do with the episode itself). A more successful example was ''The Adventures of Captain Proton!'', a homage to 1930s sci-fi adventures like ''[[Film/FlashGordonSerial Flash Gordon]]'' and ''BuckRogers''.
** An Alien version of this occurs, showing an evil version of the Voyager crew as propaganda between two races of aliens, until a copy of The Doctor sets the record straight... and then the entire show-within-a-show is shown to, ''itself'' be a [[ShowWithinAShow show within a show within a show.]]
* SpaceClouds: In "Year of Hell", a crippled Voyager hides inside a nebula so dense that it produces a visible fog inside the ship's corridors. Captain Janeway even orders the hull breaches sealed to avoid having an "indoor nebula."
* SpaceIsAnOcean: In the episode "Day of Honor," Paris and Torres put on spacesuits and abandon their doomed shuttlecraft. As they drift in space awaiting rescue, they bob up and down as if floating in an ocean.
* SpaceIsNoisy
* SpikeShooter: There's a species of sentient technology-dependent [[EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs hadrosaur]] [[SomewhereAPaleontologistIsCrying descendants]] that shoot sedative-laced barbs from their fingers.
* SpinoffSendoff: The pilot, "Caretaker", starts with Voyager docked at Deep Space Nine, with Quark trying to con Harry Kim.
* StatusQuoIsGod: One of the, if not ''the'' biggest complaints leveled against the show.
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[[folder:Tropes T-Z]]
* TechnoBabble: With the best of them.
* TerminallyDependentSociety: The Ocampan dependence on the Caretaker array. How dependant? We later learn that an Ocampan can only ever have a single child. Assuming that this is one child per Ocampa, male or female, every early death or miscarriage permanently reduces the Ocampan population.
** The Caretaker gave them 5 years worth of power for the city before his death. Given how dependent on him the Ocampans were, its doubtful they could figure out for themselves a different power-source. The forcefield protecting them from outsiders will most likely fail as the power dwindles and they'll eventually have to leave for the surface... ''where the Kazon are.'' [[FridgeBrilliance This is probably why Kes is so pissed off in "Fury"]].
* TheyStillBelongToUsLecture: The Borg Queen delivers a number of these lectures about Seven.
* {{Thoughtcrime}}: There was an episode where they came across a people who were extremely telepathic, so sensitive that any extreme emotions would incite them to act out on those feelings; having violent thoughts was a crime in and of itself. Torres was put under trial for having a brief violent thought when someone bumped into her, and Tuvok's investigation into the planet's culture found a sort of "violent thoughts" Black Market. Of course it examined the nature that when something was so taboo it meant their own people were unable to handle it when confronted with the situation.
* ThirdPersonPerson:
-->'''Dreadnought''': "False information has been entered into ''Dreadnought''[='=]s navigational sensor array."\\
'''Paris''': "When a bomb starts talking about itself in the third person, I get worried."
* TimTaylorTechnology
* TransformationSequence: Overlaps with WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome in "Tinkor, Tailor, Doctor, Spy". The Doctor's transformation into the ECH is accompanied by a dramatic zoom on the Doctor's lapel as the pips appear one by one.
* TwoDSpace: Like ''all'' Star Trek, though the large holographic Astrometrics display did avert this somewhat.
* TwoRoadsBeforeYou
* {{Understatement}}: In "Scientific Method," Janeway decides to fly ''Voyager'' between two stars, hoping to destroy the ships of some aliens who have been experimenting on the crew in the process, despite Tuvok's warning that the odds of their survival are "one in twenty, at best." Tuvok tells her that it's a far more reckless course of action than he's come to expect from her. After they manage to get away, Janeway comments to Tuvok that she never knew he thought of her as "reckless." Tuvok says that it was a poor choice of words: "It was clearly an understatement."
** She had an excuse in this case -- Janeway herself makes it clear that the aliens' experiments to push her to her limits through prolonged stress had driven her, well, crazy. If you thought she was bad ''before''...
* UnitConfusion
* UnPaused: The Doctor, when Seven switches him off in the middle of a sentence.
* {{UST}}: Plenty of this between Janeway and Chakotay, but more so in early seasons.
** Mostly due to the influence of Jeri Taylor, who wrote the majority of the episodes where this is prevalent. After she took a backseat as a writer, this promptly vanished.
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* VisionQuest: Chakotay [[MagicalNativeAmerican consults his spirit guide]] about once a season, or helps someone else do so.
* WeAreAsMayflies: Kes and the other Ocampa have an average lifespan of less than a decade in length.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: A Borg baby is brought on board along with several Borg children. Icheb stays while the other children are returned to their parents in a later episode, but there's never any mention of what happened to the baby.
** Whatever happened to Suspiria, the Female Caretaker?
* WhatMeasureIsANonhuman: With a holographic Doctor, they question of whether a projection of HardLight and a "soul" of algorithms arises a few times. This includes encountering a race of photonic creatures in a different plane, and another which considers holographic programs to be insurgents. Even what rights the Doctor has on the ship has been explored, with him even trying to resign in one episode.
* WhatTheHellHero: Seven calls Janeway on this when she and the crew intend to delete memories causing the Doctor to almost literally [[HeroicBSOD BSOD]] instead of trying to work through his problems psychologically. She wasn't around to object the first time they did it.
** Also in "Hope and Fear" with the alien blaming Janeway's decision to back the Borg against Species 8472. As the latter were forced to retreat, the Borg were able to go on and assimilate his world.
** Remember back in the TNG episode "A Measure of a Man" where Picard chewed out Starfleet who were planning to disassemble Data so they could build Androids to serve on Federation vessels, arguing that it was tantamount to them actively perpetuating a Slave-Race? Well apparently Starfleet doesn't, as its revealed in "Lifeline" that they reprogrammed every single EMH Mk I in the Alpha Quadrant to mine Dilithium asteroids.
* WritersCannotDoMath: [[http://www.mi6forums.co.uk/viewtopic.php?p=4713264#4713264 The character biographies]], [[http://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/inconsistencies/inconsistencies-voy.htm the shuttlecraft complement, the number of torpedoes, the crewmembers]]...
* WroteTheBook: In the finale, a future Starfleet instructor introduces Admiral Janeway as "the person who, literally, wrote the book on the Borg."
* YellowBrickRoad: Though when keeping to the path is the only way to progress ''and'' StatusQuoIsGod...
* YouCantGoHomeAgain: This is especially true for Neelix, whose homeworld was destroyed, and Icheb, whose parents want only to use him as a weapon.
* YouKeepUsingThatWord: Various crewmembers describe things from the 19th and 20th century as being "Ancient", which is like saying that Roman Chariots and Nuclear Weapons are relatively ''close'' historically. Even more egregious considering that they are only 400 years downwind from the things they are describing.
* YouLookFamiliar
* YouNeverDidThatForMe: Janeway, upon learning that her best friend Tuvok used to make tea for [[StarTrekVITheUndiscoveredCountry then-Captain Sulu]], complains in a mock-annoyed fashion that he never made ''her'' tea! In the novelization of that episode, he notes, quite reasonably, that she prefers coffee.
* YouTubePoop: Growing in popularity.
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!!There are also several shows [[ShowWithinAShow Shows Within a Show]]. They contain examples of:
[[folder:The Adventures of Captain Proton!]]
* AcCENTUponTheWrongSylLABle: Chaotica.
* AppliedPhlebotinum: Arachnia's vial of [[LoveIsInTheAir irresistable pheromones]]. Dr Chaotica's [[DeflectorShields Lightning Shield]].
* BBCQuarry: Harry Kim points out that "Planet X" looks identical to "The Mines of Mercury" that they visited in the last adventure.
* ChainedToARock: Constance Goodheart is tied to a pillar prior to her being presented to Queen Arachnia as a "supreme sacrifice".
* CliffhangerCopout: Paris and Kim are watching a recap of last week's Proton episode, which shows their rocketship dramatically bursting into flame.
-->'''Kim:''' We didn't burst into flame in the last chapter! Why are these recaps so inaccurate?
-->'''Paris:''' Well they brought people back to the theaters.
-->'''Kim:''' Cliffhangers!
-->'''Paris:''' The lost art of hyperbole.
* DamselInDistress: Parodied in the [[MsFanservice voluptuous form]] of Constance Goodheart, who "tags along on all the missions" for the sole purpose of getting captured by {{Mad Scientist}}s, and whose only dialogue is an [[ScreamingWoman ear-piercing scream]].
** HilarityEnsues when Tom tries to put ''Seven of Nine'' in this role. She goes OffTheRails quickly.
* DeliberatelyMonochrome
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Captain Janeway (as [[TheVamp Arachnia]]) stroking Chaotica's "[[DeathRay formidable weapon]]".
* DopeSlap: Paris gives this to Satan's Robot when it scares off the alien they're trying to make FirstContact with. The Robot shambles off muttering sulkily about alien invaders.
* EmperorScientist / MadScientist / BigBad: [[MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate Doctor]] Chaotica, [[TheMagnificent Ruler of the Cosmos!]]
* EvilLaugh: Chaotica, whose other villain tropes include EvilEyebrows, BeardOfEvil, PaidHarem, BigNo, YouHaveFailedMe, YouFool, [[KneelBeforeZod "Kneel before Chaotica!"]], LonelyAtTheTop, and "Full power to the DeathRay!"
* FemmeFatale: Queen Arachnia. Plus the Twin Mistresses of Evil, Demonica and Malicia.
* GenreSavvy: Tom Paris knows something's gone wrong in "Bride of Chaotica!" because Constance Goodheart has been killed, and that [[BoringInvincibleHero never happens to the Good Guys]]. Likewise he tries to warn Captain Janeway of Chaotica's fondness for [[BoobyTrap hidden traps]], but she falls into one anyway.
* InvincibleHero
-->'''Chaotica:''' But I saw you fall into the fiery mouth of that volcano!\\
'''Proton:''' It takes more than a little lava to stop Captain Proton.
* KillerRobot: Parodied in the [[TinCanRobot clunky mechanical form]] of Satan's Robot. [[InformedAbility Supposedly terrifying]] but actually slow-moving, easily disabled, and rather pathetic.
* LargeHam: Frankly, the whole point of playing the program. Chaotica is the king of this, but also seen with the Doctor and Captain Janeway whose initial reaction is either contempt or amusement, but who end up playing their roles with gusto. Hilariously subverted though by Seven of Nine in "Night" (see OffTheRails, below.)
* LoveIsInTheAir: While [[ChainedToARock Tied To a Pillar]] Janeway uses Arachnia's vial of "irresistable pheromones" to make Dr Chaotica release her. Unfortunately Chaotica moves out of sniffing range, leaving her to get slobbered over by his ugly henchman Lonzak instead.
* TheMagnificent: Captain Proton: Spaceman First Class, protector of Earth, scourge of intergalactic evil...at your service.
* {{Mooks}}: Chaotica's [[FacelessGoons 'Army of Evil']], plus his [[SurroundedByIdiots bumbling henchman]] Lonzak.
* OffTheRails: In "Night" Tom Paris ropes in Seven to play the DamselInDistress. Upon being menaced by the KillerRobot, Seven calmly responds:
-->'''Seven:''' I am Borg. ''(yanks out robot's wiring, disabling it)'' The robot has been neutralized. May I leave now?
* RoboSpeak: Satan's Robot with its CatchPhrase: "SUR-REND-DER!" Also ElectronicSpeechImpediment whenever it gets damaged.
* RolePlayingGame: That's what any holonovel is.
* ShotMidSentence: Lonzak is raygunned by Proton and Buster as he's hamming his way through his Roaring Speech of Revenge.
-->"Surprised? You thought I had [[NotQuiteDead perished in that den of crocodiles]]. I SURVIVED! CLINGING to the thought that I would ONE DAY__''Arrrrgh!''"
* {{Sidekick}}: Ensign Harry Kim plays 'Buster', a ShoutOut to Buster Crabbe who famously played Flash Gordon in the [[Film/FlashGordonSerial 1930s film serials]].
* SpaceDoesNotWorkThatWay: Parodied in "Thirty Days" where Proton is seen flying through outer space [[BatmanCanBreatheInSpace protected by a leather jacket and flying goggles]].
* StrappedToAnOperatingTable: Janeway in "Shattered".
* SupervillainLair: Doctor Chaotica's [[DoomyDoomsOfDoom Fortress of Doom]].
* TooKinkyToTorture: Harry Kim greatly enjoys being chained up by the [[TwinThreesomeFantasy Delaney Sisters]] and threatened with enslavement via their evil [[MindProbe Brain Probe]], so much so that he [[ComplainingAboutRescuesTheyDontLike insists Captain Proton not be hasty in his rescue]].
* YouJustRuinedTheShot: In "Bride Of Chaotica!" [[EnergyBeings photonic aliens]] mistake the simulation for reality and go to war with Chaotica.
* {{Zeerust}}: It's several centuries old by the time of ''Voyager''.
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[[folder:Insurrection Alpha]]
* DependingOnTheWriter: [[spoiler:The story has four different authors, each with a different purpose.]]
* DeusExMachina: [[spoiler:Janeway rewrites the program to have an alien ship come to their aid, giving Tuvok time to snag a phaser rifle.]] At the end of the episode, the characters are [[ConversationalTroping sitting around, talking about the program]] and Tuvok compliments Janeway on this move. "Who says deus ex machina is an outdated literary device?" she responds.
* DiabolusExMachina: [[spoiler:Seska programs the Holodeck to improvise them.]]
* EverythingIsTryingToKillYou: Seska is quite the sadist.
* ExecutiveMeddling: Janeway's insistence that the Holo-novel be completed over the wishes of the original author could be seen as a bit of this.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Torres is complaining that the holonovel doesn't have any romance.
-->'''Paris:''' I could add a steamy love scene between the [[OfficialCouple Starfleet conn officer and the Maquis engineer]].\\
'''Torres:''' Oh, ''that's'' realistic!
* HeyIKnowYou
* HolodeckMalfunction
* HypocriticalHumor: After Paris tells Tuvok that he's going to have Janeway execute the mutineers, Tuvok complains that this is against Janeway's established personality and that characters should not deviate so tremendously. Neelix walks over and insists that he would never betray the captain like he did in the holonovel. Paris makes fun of Tuvok over this point. Paris is being a bit unfair though. Tuvok hadn't touched the program in years, and in fact tried to delete the program because he got so much wrong.
* KillerGameMaster
* NoEnding: [[spoiler:Or so Tuvok thought.]]
* OffTheRails
* OhCrap
* OutOfCharacter: First, Tuvok got Neelix's character completely wrong. Then Tom Paris wants to have Janeway execute all the mutineers. [[spoiler:And when Seska got at the character profiles...]]
* {{Railroading}}: [[spoiler:Seska programmed the holodeck to do this when Tuvok and Paris were on the verge of getting the upper hand.]]
* TheReveal: Everyone assumes that ''Insurrection Alpha'' is an action-adventure holonovel with some TakeThat jabs at Janeway's command decisions. [[spoiler:It turns out to be a [[UnwinnableTrainingSimulation program created by Tuvok to train his security officers]] against a Maquis mutiny.]]
* TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized: [[spoiler:Once Seska gets a hold of the story.]]
* SelfFulfillingProphecy: When the Maquis and Starfleet crewmembers end up [[EnemyMine working well together]], Tuvok realises his program could itself create tensions between the two groups and deletes it. Or so he thinks. Tuvok's expectations are subverted when they find it and enjoy it.
* WhoWritesThisCrap: Paris's comment the first time he runs the program when the holographic Tuvok in the brig suggests that they might need to spend as long as a week observing their captors for weaknesses. "A week?! Who wrote this stuff?"
* WriterOnBoard: Neelix's HeelFaceTurn in the original program is undoubtedly due to Tuvok's dislike of the AlienScrappy, as well as his initial mistrust. As Tuvok had just been complaining about Tom's OutOfCharacter revisions, Tom doesn't hesitate to call him on it. That being said, Tuvok abandoned and tried to delete the program over two years prior when his predictions failed to manifest.
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[[folder:The Voyager Encounter]]
* AlternateRealityEpisode: This was clearly meant to be ''Star Trek Voyager's'' version of an EvilTwin MirrorUniverse episode, though unfortunately it lacks the BareYourMidriff uniforms and blatant HoYay.
* BadassCrew: Taken to its most terrifying extreme, the warship ''Voyager'''s crew are clearly insane. Even ''Neelix'' manages to get in an awesome line in a putdown to Paris.
* BrickJoke: Also leading to a CallBack that in "Worst Case Scenario", Tom Paris suggests that a holographic Janeway execute some mutineers. We see this version of a holographic Janeway do just that to hostages.
* CallBack
* CoolStarship: It has to be said, the alternate ''Voyager'' armed to the teeth with guns isn't a bad sight.
* DependingOnTheWriter: The curator's initial idea when he finds the Doctor is to use him to help him alter the program to make it a more accurate simulation. He admits that over the years they've had to extrapolate certain things to fill in the gaps.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: The biased depiction of the Vaskan leader has him going to war with the Kyrians simply to steal their land. He contracts Voyager as mercenaries to accomplish this, but even he objects on moral grounds and tries to cancel the deal when Janeway decides to effect massive genocide of the Kyrians as the best solution.
* FinalSolution: Evil Janeway's genocide of the Kyrians, which apparently kills at least 900,000 people.
* FutureImperfect: The historian's interpretation of the event is... misguided, to say the least. This is due to the fact that he barely has any data to work with and a heavy bias against the Vaskans. The crew wear fascist uniforms and are portrayed as violent sociopaths. The Doctor is an android. Seven of Nine is still a Borg leading a contingent of captured drones. Even ''Voyager'' herself has become a darkly-lit ship, armed to the teeth and referred to as a warship.
* HandOfDeath: The evil ''Voyager'' crew all wear black gloves.
* HistoricalBadassUpgrade: See BadassCrew and CoolStarship above.
* HistoricalHeroUpgrade: The Kyrians, Tetran in particular.
* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: The Voyager crew and the Vaskans.
* MyFriendsAndZoidberg: The Doctor points out that the way his colleagues have been depicted in the historical recreation has morphed them into violent thugs, but he actually finds Paris to be pretty well portrayed (who from what we've seen admittedly is not depicted so much as a bloodthirsty villain rather than just cocky and prone to skirt-chasing).
-->These weren't the people I knew! They didn't behave like this! [{{Beat}}] Well, except for Mr. Paris.
* PoliticallyCorrectHistory: The Kyrian recreation portrays Tedran as a martyr for the Kyrians who was executed by Janeway while trying to stop an alliance between the Vaskans and ''Voyager''. Later averted when it's revealed that ''Voyager'' was merely trading with the Vaskans when Tedran attacked unprovoked, tried to loot the ship, and then was killed by the Vaskan ambassador without warning.
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: The Doctor himself in this episode, or rather his backup copy, which is reactivated 700 years later.
* ShowWithinAShow: The reveal that the Doctor setting the events of the ''Voyager'' recreation straight were in turn ''themselves'' another recreation at the same museum, many years later.
* TortureTechnician: The Doctor is portrayed as this, much to his horror.
* WriterOnBoard: Also subverted; the original recreation was this, while the Doctor and the curator are seen this way by the historical council when they try to correct it.
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[[quoteright:235:The original cast (L-R): Neelix, Chakotay, Kim, Kes (above), Janeway, Paris, Tuvok, The Doctor, and Torres.]]
->"''There are three things to remember about being a Starship Captain. Keep your shirt tucked in, [[GoingDownWithTheShip go down with the ship]], and [[TheMenFirst never abandon a member of your crew]].''"
-->-- '''Captain Janeway'''
The third 'new generation' StarTrek, it ran for seven seasons, from January 1995 through May 2001. In the first episode, the [[CoolStarship USS Voyager]] was [[TheCallKnowsWhereYouLive pulled across the galaxy by an alien device]]. Janeway destroyed the device during a battle rather than let it be misused, stranding her ship seventy-five years' travel time from home.
For the next seven seasons, the Voyager looked for a shortcut [[TheHomewardJourney back to Earth]] while dodging or defeating the assortment of AliensAndMonsters. They even crossed paths with a pair of Ferengi that had been zapped to the Delta Quadrant back in ''[[StarTrekTheNextGeneration Next Generation]]'', at least one Romulan, and even another Starfleet vessel, also kidnapped by the Caretaker and trying to get back to the Federation.
Early on even the producers found a certain problem with the premise, in that the series had a singular goal of returning home. That meant while there was plenty of "Strange New Worlds" to discover, they were always looking home, and constantly missing [[JustEatGilligan opportunities for shortcuts]]. Another problem was the use of InfiniteSupplies. Early in the series, many fans quickly dubbed Voyager the HMS ResetButton; the conclusion of almost every episode usually resulted in a return to ''[[StatusQuoIsGod status quo ante]]''.
Interestingly, the show suffered from such inconsistent writing that even the ''actors'' complained; Kate Mulgrew mentioned that her character (the ship's captain) was [[DependingOnTheWriter never portrayed the same way from episode to episode]] (causing Janeway to switch between upholding the [[{{Alien Non-Interference Clause}} Prime Directive]] 'no matter the cost' in some episodes, and having no problem with breaking it whenever it proves even a ''minor'' inconvenience in others), and Robert Beltran's notoriously wooden acting has often been attributed to his contempt for the writing of his character and the plots, which he's expressed in several interviews. At least some of this has been ascribed to ExecutiveMeddling on the part of Paramount, hampering the production team on building a stronger show.
The show was a frustrating mix of genuinely good entertainment and "safe" old StarTrek stand-bys. Part of this was a predominance with episodes of the SpotlightStealingSquad between Seven-Of-Nine and The Doctor. The lackluster response to ''Voyager'' was actually a serious consideration to hold off on further StarTrek series ([[ExecutiveMeddling which was demanded anyway]]). But it was also the near-magical power of the technology in this series that made them decide upon a less-evolved {{prequel}} series in ''{{Enterprise}}''.
That said, ''Voyager'' was notable for taking on stories and subjects that even its very daring sister series, ''Deep Space Nine'', didn't touch -- the crew encountered a Starfleet vessel that was willing to totally discard its Federation principles for the sake of getting home, faced the Borg on their home turf, and even tackled the moral and ethical implications of assisting in a suicide.
''Voyager'' is known throughout ''Trek'' fandom as a series that featured an episode so ''incredibly'' sub-par that both the fans ''and the producers'' unofficially struck it from canon after it aired (unless you count an offhand comment in a later episode...which ''[[CanonDiscontinuity officially]]'' strikes it from canon).
However, ''Voyager'' is also widely considered to have the most beautiful and evocative [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gX9FU8bmxQs theme music]] the franchise has ever produced (albeit not the most ''iconic''; that honor goes to TOS and TNG). It has been said that ''Voyager'''s theme is the music to what the show ''should'' have been.
If you want to read something like an AbridgedSeries or MysteryScienceTheater3000 version, try FiveMinuteVoyager.
Want reviews of this? No problem, just ask Chuck Sonnenburg at [[SFDebris SF Debris!]]
And see also the ''StarTrekVoyagerRelaunch'' for the show's continuation in novel form.
The first game in the ''StarTrekEliteForce'' video game series takes place in this show, and the actors from the show provide their voices for their counterparts (except Jeri Ryan as Seven-Of-Nine, until an expansion pack including her was released).
''Voyager'' now has a [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/crowner.php/BestEpisode/StarTrekVoyager best episode crowner]]!
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!!This show provides examples of the following tropes:
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* ActingForTwo: "Faces". "Deadlock", "11:59", "Life Line", "Endgame"
* AlienAbduction: How they ended up in the Delta Quadrant in the first place in "Caretaker". Plus there's the Vidiians seeking to [[OrganTheft steal the crew's organs]] to replace their own diseased tissue. And "The 37's", abducted from the opposite side of the galaxy because WeWillUseManualLaborInTheFuture. Also "Heroes and Demons" and "Displaced".
* AncientAstronauts: "Tattoo"
* BackToFront: "Before and After"
* BadFuture: "[[{{Mundanization}} Future's End]]", "Timeless", "Endgame".
* BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy: Amelia Earhart Was Abducted By Space Aliens ("The 37's").
* BiologicalMashUp: [[TeleporterAccident "Tuvix"]]
* BodySnatcher: [[PeoplePuppets "Cathexis"]], [[GrandTheftMe "Warlord"]], [[BodySurf "Vis-Ã -Vis"]].
* TheBoxingEpisode: "The Fight"
* {{Brainwashed}}: "Persistence of Vision", [[BugWar "Nemesis"]], [[LotusEaterMachine "Bliss"]], "Repression", "Workforce".
* TheBusCameBack: "Fury"
* TheChainsOfCommanding: "Night", "Year of Hell", "[[HourglassPlot Equinox]]", "Endgame".
* DeathSeeker (or DrivenToSuicide): A member of the Q Continuum argues for the right to commit suicide in [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin "Death Wish"]]. Also B'Elanna Torres in "Extreme Risk" and Neelix in "Mortal Coil". And apparently Janeway, given her frequent threats to [[SelfDestructMechanism blow up]] Voyager or [[DebateAndSwitch fly it into binary pulsars]].
* [[DieHardOnAnX Die Hard on a Spaceship]]: "Basics, Part II", "Macrocosm", "The Killing Game".
* [[DoAndroidsDream Do Holograms Dream]]: "Projections", "Prototype", "The Swarm", [[AIIsACrapshoot "The Darkling", "Revulsion"]], "Real Life", "Flesh and Blood", "Life Line", "Someone To Watch Over Me", "Tinker Tenor Doctor Spy", "Author Author".
* DownerEnding: "Course: Oblivion", probably one of the few examples of the trope in Star Trek.
* EggMcGuffin: "Partutition"
* EnsignNewbie: "Nightingale"
* EpicRace: "Drive"
* ForcedPrizeFight: "Tsunkatse" (featuring a cameo by DwayneJohnson)
* GodGuise: "False Profits", "Muse" (subverted in that the crew inspire a [[FanFiction play]] as opposed to a religion).
* GrandFinale: "Endgame"
* HeroicSociopath: Ensign Lon Suder (BradDourif) murders a coworker, and is locked in his quarters ("Meld"). During a siege of the ship ("Basics, Part 1 and 2"), he uses his murder skills to fight off the invaders, before finishing with a HeroicSacrifice.
* HumansAreBastards: "Tattoo", "[[PoweredByAForsakenChild Equinox]]".
* [[IdenticalGrandson Identical Granddaughter]]: "11:59", or identical great-great-great... well, you get the idea. The ancestral love interest bears a strong resemblance to Janeway's former love, as well.
* TheInfinite: "Threshold" where Tom Paris designs and builds an engine to go [[MemeticMutation To Infinity And Beyond]]!! As a [[HitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy drive the infinite turns out to be improbable]] though.
* InterspeciesRomance: Apart from scenes involving the OfficialCouple there's "Elogium" (where a SpaceWhale tries to hump the ship!), "Favourite Son", [[AboveTheInfluence "Blood Fever"]], "The Q and the Grey" ("With a Q, foreplay can last for ''decades''!"), "Unforgettable", "In The Flesh", "Counterpoint", "Gravity", and "The Disease" (it's not what you think).
* InterstellarWeapon: Both "Dreadnought" and "Warhead" revolved around trying to keep interstellar missiles from blowing up innocent people.
* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: "Flesh and Blood", "[[EvilCounterpart Equinox]]". A basic plot point in "[[NotQuiteTheRightThing Scorpion]]".
* KissMeIAmVirtual: "Persistence of Vision", "Lifesigns", "Alter Ego", "Real Life", [[PygmalionPlot "Someone to Watch Over Me"]], "Tinker Tenor Doctor Spy", [[PygmalionSnapBack "Fair Haven"]], "Spirit Folk", "Muse", "Body & Soul", "Workforce", "Human Error".
* MadeForTVMovie: "Dark Frontier" was written and aired as a TV movie, though it was filmed as a normal two-part episode. "Flesh and Blood" was also aired as a TV movie, though it was neither written nor filmed as such.
* MagicVersusScience: "Sacred Ground".
* MasterOfIllusion: "Persistence of Vision", "Coda", "The Thaw", "Flashback", "Worse Case Scenario", [[PinchMe "Waking Moments"]], [[PuttingOnTheReich "The Killing Game"]], "The Fight", "Bliss". Also "Remember", "Memorial" and "Living Witness" which explore the nature of [[HistoryMarchesOn truth in history]].
* MedicalDrama: "Scientific Method", "Nothing Human", "Latent Image", "Critical Care", "Imperfection", "Lineage".
* MonsterClown: "The Thaw" features one as the anthropomorphic personification of fear.
* TheMutiny: "Worst Case Scenario", [[TheRemnant "Repression"]].
* PostMortemComeback: In "Worst Case Scenario" (S3 E25), a highly adaptive hologram of Seska enters the program and manipulates it to her own ends.
* ThePlague: "Macrocosm". Plus any episode involving Vidiians.
* RelationshipResetButton: "Unforgettable".
* RipVanWinkle: "Living Witness", "Timeless"
* SchrodingersButterfly: "Waking Moments"
* SpaceElevator: "Rise"
* SubspaceAnsible: Seeing as Voyager is a ''lot'' further out than other Federation vessels, and has been presumed destroyed, even getting a message home is important to the crew. "Eye of the Needle", "Message in A Bottle", "Hunters", "Pathfinder".
* TimeTravel: "[[MerlinSickness Time and Again]]", "Eye of the Needle", "[[ETGaveUsWiFi Future's End]]", [[MayflyDecemberRomance "Before]] [[BackToFront and After"]], "Year of Hell", "Relativity", "Shattered", "Endgame". Also "Non Sequitor" and "Deadlock" (alternate timelines).
* TomatoInTheMirror: "Course: Oblivion"
* TreacherousSpiritChase: "Coda"
* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: "11:59"
* TwiceToldTale: "Flashback" provides one for ''StarTrekVITheUndiscoveredCountry''. Unfortunately, there are some obvious continuity errors between the episode and the movie. Most notably, the episode features the death of a background crew member who appears alive in "later" scenes of the movie.
* VirtualCelebrity: "Virtuoso"
* WeaponOfMassDestruction: [[MisguidedMissile "Dreadnought", "Warhead"]], [[PersonOfMassDestruction "Childs Play"]] plus the Krenim temporal weapon-ship in "Year of Hell", and nine Species 8472 [[LivingShip bioships]] linking up to destroy an entire Borg planet in "Scorpion".
* WhatTheHellHero: "[[ExpendableClone Tuvix]]", "Thirty Days", "Scorpion", "Equinox, Part II".
* WriterOnBoard: "Muse" is basically a plea for understanding from the writers of this [[SnarkBait oft-criticized series]], showing how they're pulled between the desire to create meaningful works of art, the need to satisfy those paying their wages, and the demands of the audience for action and romance - told via a poet on a primitive warlike world who's trying to [[FanFiction write a play based on Voyager's logs]].
* WronglyAccused: "Ex Post Facto", "State of Flux", "The Chute", "Living Witness", "Random Thoughts".
* XanatosGambit: The best example is "Counterpoint". [[spoiler: ''Voyager'' is transporting telepaths through Devore space, where telepaths are automatically arrested, along with those helping them. Kashyk arrives and informs the crew that he knows what they're doing and how they plan to escape. He also says he's defecting and wants to help them avoid a Devore planned for them. If the crew believes him, then he betray them at a crucial moment. If the turn him away, he turens them in. If they do something to him, his superiors will wonder what happened and come looking for him.]] He'd win no matter what they did. [[spoiler: Except he was OutGambitted by Janeway, who was prepared for his deception. If he was telling the truth, great, she'd be happy to have him onboard. If he wasn't, she was ready.]]
** Also seen in [[CurseOfBabel "Think Tank"]], where Janeway thinks that the Hazari are covering every escape route and the ones that don't appear covered are traps, screwing the ship no matter which path they choose. [[spoiler: Then its inverted on the Hazari's employers, who are screwed no matter what ''they'' do.]]
** "Dark Frontier", [[spoiler: the borg wanted Seven of Nine to be severed earlier to develop a human perspective. If the federation hadn't taken the bait, they lose nothing. In the episode itself, the Borg Queen's plan. If Seven returns them, they leave Voyager alone. If not, they assimilate Voyager during the mission. If Seven warns Voyager, than the borg recover the transwarp coil that Voyager planned on stealing. ]] and "Endgame".
* YearInsideHourOutside: "Gravity", "Blink of an Eye".
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* AgentScully: Played with in "Blink of an Eye", with two scientists trying to discover if there's anyone on board Voyager, which has been in their sky for their civilisation's entire history due to YearInsideHourOutside. The Scully doubts there's anyone on board, but when the Mulder asks why he's on the mission in the first place, he adds that he doubts everything - including his own doubts.
* AGodAmI: Invoked by a group of Ferengi who ended up getting stuck in the Delta Quadrant in a similar fashion that Voyager did. They spent no time tricking and manipulating a planet's native race to start following the Rules of Acquisition and making them believe that the Ferengi were gods and prophets to the gods.
* AIIsACrapshoot: If the Doctor's programming isn't getting messed with, then it's a sentient WeaponOfMassDestruction or holograms with [[TurnedAgainstTheirMasters unsatisfactory employer relations]] who are causing the problem.
* AllTheMyriadWays, leading to Harry Kim becoming his own SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute.
* AlternateUniverse
* AlwaysChaoticEvil: the Kazon and the Borg
* AlwaysSaveTheGirl: Janeway's willingness to risk everything to save Seven of Nine was to prove [[LesYay fertile ground]] for J/7 SlashFic writers.
* AndIMustScream: In the early episodes, the Doctor couldn't shut off his own program. This annoyed him when people would just leave the room without deactivating him. In one instance, he specifically requests that, should the crew choose to abandon the ship for any reason, they take the time to shut him off before they leave. If they didn't, he'd be stuck in Sickbay until power failed, completely alone.
* AnotherMansTerror: Paris has this forced upon him in "Ex Post Facto".
* AttackPatternAlpha ([[PlayingWithATrope Played with]] by the Doctor in "Message in a Bottle")
* BackForTheDead: Poor Joe Carey in the final season. He reappears after a long absence only to be the last crew member killed before Voyager makes it home a few episodes later.
* BelligerentSexualTension: The romance between Tom Paris and B'Elanna Torres is every inch this trope.
* BerserkButton:
** For the love of all things holy, enemies must leave Janeway's crew ''alone!''
** Any character causing harm to Neelix in front of Kes tends to end up bleeding from the eyeballs.
** Neelix often acts as this to Tuvok. You can tell its taking every bit of his Vulcan restraint not to strangle him. In fact, in one episode, he actually ''does so''... or seems to anyway, only to then utter the words "Computer, end holodeck program."
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Harry Kim in "The Chute".
** Neelix in some episodes, particularly "Repentance". He may seem like your average [[TheScrappy annoying]] or [[YourMilageMayVary fun-loving]] {{Cloudcuckoolander}}, but do not mistake him for an idiot.
*** And then consider for a moment that whenever something goes horribly wrong and Tuvok is no longer capable of acting as security chief, it's always ''Neelix'' who is promoted to the position. That should tell you something about him.
** Kes is a very nice, polite young woman. She's also an immensely powerful psychic that can boil your blood by accident, and when someone takes over her body, she messes with him for several minutes of perceived time, only for him to wake up and realize that maybe a second passed.
** "Fury" takes this to its extreme limit, where a vengeful older-Kes powerwalks down a corridor that explodes from her mere presence.
* BigBad: Maje Culluh & Seska for the first two seasons, the Borg Queen for the last few.
* TheBigRace: In one episode, Tom and B'Elanna participate in a race with the Delta Flyer.
* BizarreAlienBiology: Kes (nine year lifespan, telepath, gives birth from a sac on her back, and when she reaches sexual maturity you rub her feet until her tongue swells up), [[SerkisFolk Species 8472]] (tripedal, five sexes, densely-coded DNA, emits a biogenic field that blocks scanning, and has an immune system that can stop Borg nanoprobes). But nothing tops the [[StarfishAliens cytoplasmic lifeform]] in "Nothing Human". The UniversalTranslator can't understand its language, the tricorder can't comprehend its biology, it controls a spaceship via biochemical secretions, can leap through a forcefield in a single bound, and uses B'Elanna Torres as an emergency life-support system.
* BodyHorror: The phage and Paris's transformation in ''Threshold.''
* BondOneLiner: Janeway delivers one in "Year of Hell" just before [[spoiler:[[RammingAlwaysWorks ramming her severely crippled ship]] into the timeline-altering weapon ship]]: "Time's up."
* BLAMEpisode: "Threshold".
* TheBlank: In "The Fight", Chakotay fights a being from a region of chaotic space; the being is wearing a boxing hoodie that hides his face, when the alien is finally revealed, he has no face, only a starfield.
* BrickJoke: Chakotay's bottle of cider in "Shattered."
* BrokenPedestal: A variation occurs with Doctor Zimmerman in "Life-Line". The Federation eventually came to regard the EMH program as a joke due to their poor bedside manner, writing them off in the end and repurposing the entire line into miners ([[FridgeHorror the fact this makes them a slave-race is ignored]]), leaving Zimmerman bitter and disillusioned that his greatest creation is now serving as manual labour, all sharing ''his'' face. Naturally he's not too happy when The Doctor shows up to attempt to treat him.
* CaffeineBulletTime: Strangely averted...
-->'''Janeway''': Coffee: the finest organic suspension ever devised. It's got me through the worst of the last three years. I beat the Borg with it.
* CallingTheOldManOut: The Doctor does this in "Life-Line" to his creator. Doctor Zimmerman constantly belittles him and dismisses his program as a failed experiment, eventually getting furious and demanding to know ''why'' the Doctor is trying to treat his terminal illness. The Doctor furiously counters back that ''he'' designed him that way and whether he likes it or not, he is ''a Doctor'' and he ''[[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming will]]'' treat him.
* TheCastShowoff: Jeri Ryan (Seven of Nine) sang on the show a couple of times. One episode even featured a duel with the Doctor and Seven singing a duet, in harmony.
* CanonDiscontinuity: The producers have stated that "Threshold" isn't canon...
** DiscontinuityNod: ...and later on Paris notes that he's never traveled in transwarp. To explicitly say in the show that it isn't considered canon.
** "Deuterium? You can get that anywhere!" is mentioned in one episode, seasons after the "running out of deuterium" stuff.
* CaptainErsatz: Originally the writers wanted to include the guest character of "Cadet Nicholas Locarno" from the ''[[StarTrekTheNextGeneration Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'' episode "The First Duty" as a regular. To avoid paying royalties to the writers of that episode -- and because Locarno was seen as fundamentally unredeemable -- a CaptainErsatz in the person of Tom Paris was created. Not only do both characters have a very similar {{backstory}} and personality, both are played by [=Robert Duncan McNeill=] as well.
* CharacterDevelopment: Limited to Seven, the Doctor, Kes, and a tiny smattering for Neelix and B'Elanna. Everyone else ended the show with pretty much the [[StaticCharacter personality they came in with]].
** Tom Paris started out an angry ex con with a chip on his shoulder and ended the series settled, reliable, and a hero being nurse, ace pilot, shuttle designer and a father with B'Elanna. Though his playfulness and older brother type relationship with Harry were persistent throughout the series.
* ChekhovsGun: The neural transciever in "Scorpion". The Borg attempt to use them on Janeway and Tuvok in order to link their thoughts to the hive mind; Chakotay later uses one to link his thoughts with Seven of Nine to distract her.
* ClipShow: Averted in "Before & After" (with Kes) and "Shattered" (with Chakotay and a first season Janeway) -- the protagonist visits various time periods during Voyager's journey without any actual footage from the episodes in question.
** The episode "The Fight" may not be a true clip show, but it at least deserves an honorable mention. [[spoiler:The ship is stuck in "chaotic space," the aliens which inhabit it communicate to Chakotay in his mind by splicing together words taken from other crew members from earlier in the episode.]]
* CombatPragmatist: After earlier being outsmarted by the [[EvilCounterpart Equinox's EMH]], The Doctor wins round two by simply telling the computer to [[CrowningMomentOfFunny delete it's programme]].
* CommunicationsOfficer: Harry Kim got a battlefield promotion to chief communications officer, despite only being (perpetually) an ensign.
* ConvergingStreamWeapon: Species 8472 has a weapon consisting of several ships that fire simultaneously to create one of these.
* [[CrapsackWorld Crapsack Quadrant]]: The Delta Quadrant.
* CreepyChild: Suspiria in "Cold Fire", the Borg children on their first appearance, Naomi Wildman in a nightmare sequence in "Dark Frontier" and, it was hinted on a couple of occasions, Kes ("Cold Fire", "[[FightingFromTheInside Warlord]]" and "Fury").
* {{Crossover}}: Barclay and Troi from "StarTrekTheNextGeneration"; Quark from "StarTrekDeepSpaceNine"; Captain Sulu from "[[StarTrekVI Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country]]". [[AlternateHistory Captain]] Geordi [=LaForge=] in the episode "Timeless"; Riker in "Death Wish".
* CuteMonsterGirl: Denara Pel, and pre-catsuit Seven of Nine.
* DanceOfRomance: Doc and Seven get one in "Someone to Watch Over Me"
* TheDanza: Kate Mulgrew was hired as a last minute replacement for ''Nicole'' Janeway (played by [[TheOtherMarty Geneviève Bujold]]) and she asked to have the first name changed to her full first name, Kathryn.
** Janeway's first name had originally been Katherine (note the different spelling) while the series was in development, but was changed to Nicole when the French-Canadian Bujold was cast in the role. The creators asked Mulgrew which of the two she would prefer, and she opted for a slightly altered version of the originally planned name.
* DeathIsCheap: The entire crew was offed twice. Every major character died at least once. The Harry Kim that made it home ''isn't even the original Harry Kim!''
** To clarify, an anomaly of the week duplicated the ship. Which leads to an even more disturbing alternative - the only "originals" who made it home were Harry, Naomi Wildman, and Seven of Nine. The crew never figured out which of the twin Voyagers was the original ship (if either one was). Harry and Naomi were the only two from the "other" ship who survived, while Seven joined the crew long after this incident.
* DependingOnTheWriter: It's arguable that one reason for the Personality Of The Week portrayal of Captain Janeway was that writers were conflicted between making the first female Trek captain [[RealWomenNeverWearDresses 'strong']] versus the desire for her to appear 'feminine'. Thus Janeway would veer between ActionGirl, [[GeneralRipper Self-Destruct-The-Ship-Crazy]], TeamMom, [[TheCaptain Staunch Leader]], [[TheChainsOfCommanding Noble Sufferer]], [[ShipTease Outrageous Flirt]], {{Celibate Hero}}ine, etc, etc, etc, much to actor Kate Mulgrew's irritation.
** This is frequently contrasted with how Sisko was treated in ''Deep Space Nine''. He wasn't "the black Captain" the way Janeway was "the female Captain", he was just TheCaptain.
** Some early interviews and show-related material indicate that the Janeway character was ''intensely'' examined, specifically to prevent Janeway from becoming nothing more than an ultra-feminist caricature; at the same time, a balance had to be found so that Janeway could maintain her femininity while in command. Hence, Janeway prefers being addressed as 'Captain' over 'sir' or 'ma'am' (which acknowledges that she ''is'' in command, but avoids gender politics entirely).
* {{Deprogram}}ming
* {{Determinator}}: Played with throughout the series, not in terms of an individual continuing despite horrific injuries, but with Janeway's let's-get-home-at-all-costs philosophy, which is switched on and off [[DependingOnTheWriter depending on whether it was raining]] the day the writers started on each script. See "Year of Hell" comparing the first timeline change, and consider how they could have ended up in that situation, to the last scene and the "Thanks, we'll go around" attitude.
** Also bear in mind this must be a regular bridge conversation. "How long until we get home?" "At current speeds 70 years." "Excellent we'll contin... Oh Shiny" Having just spotted a random celestial phenomena out the window.
* DittoAliens
* DoAndroidsDream: Quite a few (brilliantly done) episodes revolving around the holographic Doctor, including an episode where the Doctor simultaneously ponders this trope ''while doing it literally''.
* DoAnythingRobot: Seven's Borg implants served whatever purpose the plot needed them to, and her [[{{Nanomachines}} nanoprobes]] were like [[GreenRocks Swiss Army molecules]].
* DontExplainTheJoke In "Workforce" This is played straight from a brainwashed Tuvok.
* DownerEnding: In "Course: Oblivion", the crew appears to start dying mysteriously one by one. It's quickly determind the "crew" is actually the copies from the episode "Demon". When they realize what they are, they make a beeline back to the Demon Planet. [[spoiler:They didn't make it. To [[HumiliationConga add insult to injury]], the real ''Voyager'' passes through their vaporized remains without a clue.]]
* ElectronicSpeechImpediment: The computer on occasions. Also 'Satan's Robot' from "[[ShowWithinAShow The Adventures of Captain Proton!]]"
* EmotionalMaturityIsPhysicalMaturity: The Doctor, and the Ocampa.
* EnemyMine: Voyager teams up with the Kazon Nistrum sect, the Borg Collective, the Hirogen and several other Villains of the Week, not always successfully. Was supposed to be the original concept of the series, but the Starfleet/Maquis conflict was watered down so much that later episodes based on this schism appear ridiculous.
* EnemyWithin: In one episode the Doctor tries to expand his program by incorporating personality aspects of various historical figures who possessed great minds. He failed to realize that he would also incorporate the darker sides of their psyches, and develops an evil SplitPersonality who takes Kes hostage.
* EvilVersusEvil: The Borg vs. Species 8472
* EvilPlan: Seska, a BigBad fond of {{Railroading}}, is usually doing this.
* EvolutionaryLevels: The justification
* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: Just have a look at the episode titles.
* ExecutiveMeddling:
** Several scenes in the pilot had to be reshot because the studio vetoed Kate Mulgrew's hairstyle.
** The divisions between the Starfleet and Maquis officers were originally going to be more pronounced, but after the pilot, the network asked for this to be changed. The divisions were made more minor in Season 1 and largely ignored afterwards.
* ExpandedUniverse
* {{Expositron 9000}}: The ship's computer.
* FailsafeFailure
* FailureIsTheOnlyOption: There were several times the crew could have gotten back to the Alpha Quadrant but didn't, "False Profits" probably being the most egregious. The pilot is not actually a case of this, given that they would have needed several hours to bring the Array back online, which, given that they were under attack by ScaryDogmaticAliens with a damaged ship and a sizable reduction in crew, probably made using the Array less than tenable (note what Tuvok says here: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXmsdorYs24&feature=related around 9:21]]). However, given the way a lot of characters acted in later episodes, either she didn't divulge this bit of information or the crew got disillusioned and rejected that excuse.
** [[AvertedTrope Averted]] in later seasons; while ''Voyager'' never gets back to Earth ([[spoiler: until the GrandFinale]]), it does get progressively closer to the alpha quadrant, with most of the crew's attempts to cut a few years off of the journey succeeding.
* FallenHero: Captain Ransom of the "[[EvilCounterpart Equinox]]"
* FanServicePack: Getting Captain Janeway to [[LettingHerHairDown let her hair down]].
* FasterThanLightTravel: Voyager sought various means of getting home faster besides its already top-of-the-line warp drive, including transwarp, quantum slipstream technology, subspace corridors, and a graviton catapult which can catapult a vessel across space in the time it takes to say "catapult a vessel across space."
* FeministFantasy: The only Star Trek series with a female captain, 3 other female regulars (Torres, Kes, Seven) and a female BigBad (the Borg Queen).
** With the caveat that only 2 of the other 3 female regulars were usually there at the same time, since Seven wasn't a regular until Kes left the ship.
** Though Seven of Nine practically counts as two characters with all the focus she got during her time. Though its not really fair, plenty of fans have complained or at least joked that her years could be called "The Seven of Nine Show."
* FinalSolution: The Borg and "Species 8472" are trying to do this to each other. It's a war, but their goal is to exterminate each other's populations rather than achieving some kind of victory where the enemy's people still exists.
* FirstEpisodeSpoiler
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Many of the events depicted in "Year of Hell" are foreshadowed in "Before & After". This despite the fact that the character used to foreshadow the events (Kes) isn't there when they eventually happen.
* ForgottenPhlebotinum
* ForHappiness: As the self-appointed "Morale Officer", the character Neelix is constantly trying to live up to this trope.
* FourLinesAllWaiting: Primarily in season 1.
* FullNameBasis: Seven with Naomi Wildman.
* Even funnier when Seven addresses her as "Naomi Wildman, subunit of Ensign Samantha Wildman."
** Seven often introduces herself, especially early-on, by her full Borg designation: Seven of Nine, Tertiary Adjunct of Unimatrix 01.
* FunnyBackgroundEvent: In the early episode "The Cloud", The Doctor is on a viewscreen in the background giving information about a nebula, and then starts ranting about how the ship's presence is affecting it. Janeway "mutes" the viewscreen, then she and the other officers continue discussing about the nebula. At first, The Doctor continues ranting about the nebula, until he realizes he's on "mute". He gets annoyed and [[http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/File:The_Doctor_tries_to_get_attention.jpg starts pacing around his office for a good minute and a half]] before Tom Paris informs Janeway that The Doctor is still on viewscreen. Janeway finally "un-mutes" him.
** The same episode. Janeway hunts in the background for coffee while other main characters give exposition.
* FutureImperfect: Despite Paris being the most knowledgeable crew member of Earth's 20th century history, when Voyager is sent back in time to Earth circa 1996, even he gets a few cultural references, phrases, and mannerisms wrong.
* GenderIsNoObject: Starfleet is supposed to be purely integrated with gender no hindrance to attaining any position. The other series [[TheSmurfettePrinciple didn't quite meet]] this lofty principle. It wasn't until this series that a leading female character was Captain (although female captains and admirals did appear in minor, one-shot background roles from ''TheNextGeneration'' onward.
** Admiral Nechayev had a fair amount of screen time in 4 episodes of ''Star Trek: The Next Generation'' and 1 of ''Deep Space Nine''.
** An unnamed woman was seen to be the captain of the ''USS Saratoga'' as of 1986's Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home.
** DeepSpaceNine was a step forward from the previous series with Kira and Dax being major strong that were also competent and Kai Winn becoming more prominent in later seasons (about the normal ratio of cast, but a lot more useful and dynamic than the female regulars of previous series).
* GoodLookingPrivates: Even after seven years in the Delta Quadrant, we still see plenty of crewmembers played by extras who are clearly in their early twenties.
* GRatedDrug: Janeway's coffee addiction is a RunningGag.
-->'''Janeway:''' "Coffee. Black."\\
'''Neelix:''' "But Captain, the replicators are-"\\
'''Janeway:''' "Neelix, [[MustHaveCaffeine listen to me VERY carefully]], because I am only going to say this once: ''Coffee. Black.''"\\
'''Neelix:''' (serves coffee) "Now that I have your attention..."\\
'''Janeway:''' "Coffee first." (GiganticGulp)
** [[spoiler: Admiral Janeway]] questions why she ever gave it up in the final episode.
* TheGuardsMustBeCrazy: With the exception of Tuvok, the only function of Voyager's security personnel is to stand in the formal 'at ease' position, waiting for the person they're guarding to stun them senseless.
** Starfleet also has problems with doors. They still use a forcefield on the Brig, despite the many times we see it fail if the ship is under attack. This also doesn't excuse the fact that the one door they do have, the entrance ''doesn't even lock''.
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* HalfHumanHybrid: B'Elanna Torres, Naomi Wildman. Neelix is also 1/8th Mylean, but this only crops up in one episode.
** An argument could also be made for Seven, as she retains Borg implants even after being reclaimed from the collective.
* HeroicSacrifice / RedemptionEqualsDeath: When it was up to [[spoiler:Suder the repentant murderer]] to save the ship, he came through... but also died.
* [[HerCodeNameWasMarySue His Code Name Was Marty Stu]]: The Doctor wrote some horrifically painful holonovels where he saves the day over and over again. And lets not forget what happens when he tries to cultivate his own ability to daydream!
* HistoryMarchesOn: Used in-universe in "Living Witness". A society has ended up with an incredibly biased account of history when Voyager traversed their system hundreds of years before, depicting the crew as a gang of sadistic thugs and genocidal monsters. When a copy of the Doctor is encountered among some of the artifacts, he eventually manages to set the record straight, and influence the planet's two respective cultures to live in harmony.
* TheHomewardJourney
* HumanityEnsues:
** Seven of Nine started out as human, became a Borg as a kid, and was forcibly [[BroughtDownToNormal brought back down to human]] (more or less) by the crew of ''Voyager''. While initially not happy about it (to say the least), Captain Janeway guided her through the process of rediscovering her humanity through time, patience, and care.
** Also, it was impossible to communicate with Species 8472 before they started taking on human form, and afterwards we never saw them in their tripedal, purple-skinned, cross-pupilled EyesOfGold form again.
* HumansAreMorons: The episode "Virtuoso" introducedus to the Qomar, a [[RubberForeheadAliens Rubber Forehead Alien]] species highly dedicated to mathematics and sciences and far more advanced than the Federation, which the Qomar looks down upon in contempt. When the Doctor provides medical treatment for one of them, the Qomarian sarcastically asks if the process involves bloodletting. Even in an idealized future where humanity has overcome a good number of its flaws to become one of the most dominant space-fairing races, we're still finding aliens who think we're dumb and primitive.
* HumansAreWhite: Averted; though there are no black humans among the main characters, there is a Native American human (played by a Latino actor who claims mestizo -- part NA -- ancestry), a human of Asian origins (actor Asian-American), B'Elanna's actress is Hispanic (and the character canonically has a Hispanic dad), and Tuvok is a black ''Vulcan''.
** Tuvok also marks the beginning of a ''wider'' aversion to this trope when it comes to Vulcans; apparently the writers realized that a sunny, arid planet would favor people with a lot of melanin (Well, [[RubberForeheadAliens melanin with some forehead wrinkles]]). After Tuvok's debut, ''every'' Vulcan depicted on screen was at least "bronzed" in appearance.
* InfantImmortality: Only in parallel-yet-simultaneous realities. [[spoiler:Voyager is copied due to some strange phenomenon; newly-born Naomi Wildman dies and is replaced by the surviving copy from the doomed version of the ship.]]
* InferredHolocaust: See TerminallyDependentSociety for possible implications of the fate of the Ocampans after the death of the Caretaker.
* InfiniteSupplies: Sometimes played infamously straight, sometimes completely ignored... Sometimes one in one episode and the other in another. ''Voyager'' is one of the worst offenders for this trope.
** Actually done by the website [[http://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/inconsistencies/inconsistencies-voy.htm Ex Astris Scientia]] in their Voyager episode guide; Voyager lost at between 10 and 17 shuttlecraft and one Delta Flyer, and used at least 93 photon torpedoes when an early episode explicitly states that they can hold a maximum of 40 and have no way to replace them. However, they routinely take on supplies - either by jerry-rigged self-purifying raw materials or buying them at friendly space stations ("Fair Trade" "Survival Instinct") - it isn't that hard to assume that SOMEONE in the delta quadrant can manufacture photon torpedoes or supply the equipment and parts necessary, with the same going for shuttlecraft.
** How about the infinite [[RedShirt Johnny Nobody]] crewmembers? The original crew compliment was 141 at the beginning of "Caretaker". "The 37's" gives the combined Maquis/Starfleet crew count as 152. And yet we see so many different background filling extras (in the canteen ALONE, besides anywhere else) that one has to wonder whether it was deliberate...
** Well [[AcceptableBreaksfromReality give them a break]]. They're not going to use the same hundred-odd background actors over a ''seven year'' series.
*** There were however consistent with Lt [[FanNickname "Extra-Man"]] Ayala who appeared in over 120 of the 168 episodes and all seven series as a former-Maquis tactical/security officer. Lt Carey also often appeared as a recurring extra in engineering [[spoiler: before they killed him off]].
* InsaneTrollLogic: Used by Seven of Nine in ''The Voyager Conspiracy,'' leading her to come to a different conclusion every time she looked over the same data.
* TheJohnHenry: In one episode Seven is this, strangely enough. Harry Kim wants a tool to remove something from a Jeffries Tube; Seven suggests a "radical dislocation" which translates as yanking it out. No machinery not already built in needed...
** From various episodes throughout the series, we see how Tom Paris loves really retro stuff (toasters, jukeboxes, television sets, etc.). So he could probably fit well in this role too.
* [[JustEatGilligan Just Screw Q]]: At one point, Q hints that Voyager would get home a lot quicker if its captain formed a baby with him. As a feminist icon, Janeway rightly refuses to use her body as a bargaining chip. But in later episodes, so much emphasis was placed on how much she's willing to sacrifice to get her crew home that fans couldn't help but wonder why she didn't just boff the jerk.
** Just screwing Q is one thing, and if was just that, Janeway would have likely done it, but ''having a child with him'' this way is something else entirely. Even '''''ScifiDebris''''' points this out, and this is the guy who consistently goes out of his way to [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation paint Janeway as a]] VillainProtagonist.
* KnightKnaveAndSquire: This type of relationship is present between Janeway, Paris and Kim with Squire Kim as the wet-behind-the-ears EnsignNewbie, Knave Paris as the pragmatist who's trying to influence Kim and Knight Janeway as the [[TeamMom moral beacon]] for Kim and the rest of the crew.
* LastMinuteHookup: Seven and Chakotay. Regarded as a CrackPairing by some fans as there had been no previous {{UST}} between the two (except in a holodeck fantasy); in fact the producers had even rejected the suggestion that this happen when Seven and Chakotay were stranded on a planet together only a couple of episodes before they hooked up in "Endgame".
* LettingHerHairDown: Janeway and Kes
** Seven also does this on a few occasions.
* LivingShip: Voyager has [[AppliedPhlebotinum Neural Gel Packs]], which were probably intended to act like organic brains or at least small computers. Supposedly they were cutting-edge tech, as Voyager was an advanced ship when it was completed.
** Of course, they were used several times as a plot complication generator by having them [[PhlebotinumBreakdown "get an infection."]] Janeway eventually ordered Torres to replace them with conventional circuits, but the ship never seemed to be any less cutting-edge afterward.
*** The Gel Packs got fixed in that exact same episode.
** Species 8472 were introduced in Voyager, and they had completely organic living ships. Not even the Borg could stand up against one of those babies.
* LongestPregnancyEver: Ensign Wildman - already pregnant in the pilot episode, gives birth mid-Season 2.
** The Doctor comments on this in the episode "Fury", mentioning that members of Ensign Wildman's husband's species have a gestation that is twice as long as that of a human.
** And even more ironic, considering that Naomi had a 15 month gestation, then seemed to age 3-4 years between series 4 and 5.
*** When Naomi's born, The Doctor mentions that her teeth will begin appearing within a month. Given this relatively accelerated growth rate, it is not unreasonable to assume that she may age at a naturally slightly accelerated rate.
** [[AvertedTrope Averted]] in the episode "Drone", a 29th-century Borg drone goes from tissue sample to fetus to full-grown adult in a day.
* LongTitle: In-universe, Naomi's essay about "The weird planet where time moved very fast and so did the people who lived there". Seven helps her condense it.
* LostTechnology: In both "Message In A Bottle" and "Hunters," Voyager comes across a vast abandoned network of ancient relay stations (each powered by its own black hole!), enabling them to make contact with Starfleet on the other side of the galaxy. One little mistake and [[NiceJobBreakingItHero the entire network shut down.]]
* LudicrousSpeed: Going past the speed limit in "Threshold" [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext makes you go crazy, spit out your tongue, and eventually mutate into a large salamander]].
** But not before kidnapping your captain and taking her to an alien planet, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin so she can mutate and you can have children with her.]]
* TheMainCharactersDoEverything: A ''Star Trek'' staple, really, but ''Voyager'' really takes it to the next level. Don't be surprised if Janeway decides to fly off the ship with her first officer on ''routine patrol duty'', leaving the impulsive and unreliable Half-Klingon rebel in command.
* MateOrDie: Yup, this returns with a twist in "Blood Fever" [[spoiler:when young background Vulcan officer Vorik tries to force himself on B'Elanna Torres during his pon farr, leading her to suffer the blood fever as well.]] This is [[{{Shipping}} the episode that launched millions of Torres/Paris shippers]].
** Subverted in a later episode where Tuvok shrugs off the pon farr like a bad head cold, even though all efforts to 'resolve' the situation (short of having sex) had failed.
*** He ''does'' have a little help from the holodeck, courtesy of Tom Paris (who makes the case that technically if the hologram is of your wife, it's not cheating).
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: features prominently in a great many episodes, but especially in "Coda" in which Janeway has one of those near-death experiences known to some of us. Is Captain Janeway's experience really just another first contact with a strange alien species (which ''was'' detectable on a medical tricorder scan of her cortex), or (far from the first) contact with someone from the afterlife? The story reports, you decide.
** Just to make things more interesting, one of those unstable time loops we've seen in other StarTrek series' episodes is also suggested early on, and if the "magic" explanation is true, [[spoiler: "Admiral Janeway" would actually be a demon come to drag Captain Janeway to Hell. The flames seen coming from what he calls his matrix would certainly support this, and Janeway herself tells him "Go back to Hell, coward!"]]
* MindRape: Janeway is revealed to have done this to the Doctor in "Latent Image" after he suffered a breakdown. Janeway even justifies her actions because technically the Doctor ''isn't'' human, so she was just ''fixing him''. It takes WhatTheHellHero speeches before she sees why the Doctor is so horrified by her actions.
** It becomes HarsherInHindsight that the third episode, "Time and Again" had Janeway mention she was considering reprogramming the Doctor just because he was... ''annoying''
** "Memorial" where an alien device Mind Rapes crew members into experiencing a massacre (in actual fact, a more effective war memorial). At the end of the episode Janeway orders the device refuelled so it can go on to MindRape many more people for at least 300 years. She does however also leave a beacon some distance away to warn people about what is about to happen to them.
* TheMole: [[spoiler:Seska, a Bajoran who turns out to be a Cardassian spy infiltrating the Maquis.]]
** There was another ex-Maquis who [[spoiler:routinely reported to the Kazon-Nistrim sect, passing vital information about Voyager's goings-on to Seska.]]
** And of course, Tuvok begins the series as a Starfleet officer secretly infiltrating the Maquis. As Chakotay put it, "Was anyone on that ship working for me?"
* MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate: Crell Moset.
** The EMH aboard the USS Equinox had his "[[MoralityChip ethical subroutines]]" removed. It shows.
* MortalityEnsues: Q does it to q at one point; it's also a result of suppressing Seven's Borg nanotech.
* MST3KMantra: Invoked in "Timeless" -- Harry Kim tries to make sense of how the future version of himself could have sent the present-day Seven of Nine instructions on how to save the ship, since the future Harry's timeline was erased and he will not exist to send the instructions, resulting in an apparent GrandfatherParadox. Janeway just tells him not to bother trying to work it out, since he'll likely only succeed in giving himself a headache.
** "Deadlock" gives us this gem:
--> '''Janeway:''' "We're Starfleet officers, Harry. [[LampshadeHanging Weird is part of the job.]]"
* MyHovercraftIsFullOfEels: From "Ashes to Ashes":
--> '''Kim:''' "'Vien'ke debala, Jhet'leya.' I taught myself to say a few words in Kobali."
--> '''Ensign Lyndsay Ballard:''' "That's very sweet of you, but you just told me the comets are tiresome."
** Janeway's [[CharacterTics body language]] nearly causes a diplomatic incident at one stage.
* MySensorsIndicateYouWantToTapThat: Several examples:
** The Doctor makes very effective use of the sickbay sensors with Tom Paris.
** Seven of Nine's Borg implants may not be so precise, but she's very observant and can tell when Harry Kim is putting the moves on her.
** Subverted with Icheb, who's not as observant as Seven, and whose sensors give him a false reading from B'Elanna Torres.
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* NegativeSpaceWedgie: These served as the MonsterOfTheWeek for many Voyager episodes.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: One of their worst offenses (if not the first) was [[spoiler:inadvertently destroying the alien relay station that put them back in communication with the Alpha Quadrant]] while trying to fight off some bad guys. Fortunately, they found others that didn't get destroyed as they continued their journey.
* NothingIsTheSameAnymore: Reginald Barclay on Earth found a way to establish regular contact with ''Voyager'' in the final seasons, thus allowing the ship to have tactical and emotional support from home that was not possible before.
* NotRareOverThere: Early in the series, they're in an area of space where water is the go-to commodity. Our heroes can make all they want (within reason) and find themselves a common target because of it.
* NotSoDifferent: After meeting Doc Zimmerman, Troi says she can see where the Doctor got his ego from.
* OddFriendship: Seven and Naomi...Seven and the Doctor...Seven and anyone...
** Subverted with Neelix and Tuvok. Neelix tries so, so, so hard to be "Mr. Vulcan's" friend, but Tuvok's response is barely concealed contempt and sarcasm. And honestly, this is [[AlienScrappy Neelix]] we're talking about here, can you blame him?
*** When Tuvok is afraid he's lost his self-control and is testing his restraint in the holodeck, guess which crewmember he simulates on the grounds that he's most likely to push him to breaking point! To make matters worse, he did not have to program the holographic version of Nelix to be any different than normal. This implies that if it weren't for the intense logical training all Vulcans go through, he would have murdered Nelix a long time ago.
*** In Neelix's defense, Tuvok ''had'' just mind-melded with a SerialKiller.
* OfficialCouple: Neelix and Kes, then Tom Paris and B'Elanna Torres.
* OnceForYesTwiceForNo: A nebula alien, that learns to communicate only through the set phrases of the ship's computer.
* OnlySaneMan: Often this is either Tom Paris, or the Doctor.
** In the latter's case, when as the ''Emergency Command Hologram'' in the episode "Workforce", the Doctor's first response to being told that Voyager will be boarded and forcibly seized, is to [[CombatPragmatist immediately]] [[WhyDontYouJustShootThem open fire]] and cripple the enemy ship. In comparison, Janeway and Chakotay usually only return fire when the shields are down to 24% and several consoles have exploded.
** The Doctor's reaction in "Time and Again" when he realises no-one told informed him that Voyager was now carrying two alien passengers, Neelix and Kes. Oh and 80 Maquis now serve as part of the new crew. And he can't contact Captain Janeway because she's down on the planet below. Oh... and she is currently ''missing''.
--> '''Doctor''': It seems I've found myself on the ''voyage of the damned.''
* OrganTheft: Neelix has his lungs stolen via teleporters, forcing the Doctor to create temporary HardLight substitutes. The Vidiians actively engaged in this as it was the ''only'' way for them to survive the Phage that afflicted their entire race... [[spoiler: That is until a Think Tank later gave them a permanent cure for the right price.]]
* OrwellianEditor: Janeway in "Latent Image" repeatedly attempts to delete the Doctor's memories and even ordered all evidence of Ensign Jetal to be ''erased from existence''.
* OtherMeAnnoysMe: As SFDebris noted about whenever Janeway met various dopplegangers;
--> '''SFDebris''': Whenever we get two Janeways in the same room, they will ''always'' argue with one another.
* OutgrownSuchSillySuperstitions: Often averted with Chakotay's Native American spirituality and some explorations of other odd species' religions. The episode "False Profits" parodied this trope to Hell and back, however, with a Bronze Age civilization venerating two Ferengi refugees as their sages (sort of ersatz deities) because their crash-landing's appearance was a lot like something prophesied in one of their sacred poems. All efforts to remove the Ferengi failed until the Voyager's crew realized the same poem ended with the appearance of certain easily-arranged celestial signs and the ascension of the sages back into the heavens, all of which could be arranged using some futuristic flares and transporter technology. Since technically this means every one of the prophecies came true, there was arguably nothing to outgrow about these people's "silly superstitions" at all!
** To add to the humor, this also parodied BurnTheWitch as the joyous townspeople, spurred by the mention of their sages being taken up on "wings of flame" in the prophecy, enthusiastically rush to honor their sages by bundling them all together with some firewood and lighting the fire. Since they're beamed out before they can be burned, they truly do ascend into the heavens.
** It's implied that while many do still believe in mythology, it may not be the truth, as seen in the episode 'Mortal Coil' where Neelix dies (he gets better) and is upset he didn't experience an afterlife.
** Played straight in "Blink of an Eye" where Voyager is trapped in orbit over a planet where time moves rapidly, becoming worshiped as a deity by the inhabitants called "the Groundshaker" after their attempt to leave causes violent earthquakes. As we see time on the planet progress, the people invent telescopes and come to dub Voyager as "The Skyship", which by the time they've entered the Space Age, is no longer believed to be the home of their Gods, but merely an advanced spacecraft that houses alien beings.
* PlanetOfHats: Kazon (GangBangers [[RecycledINSPACE IN SPACE!]]), Vidiians ([[ThePlague diseased]] [[HumanResources organ pirates]]), Malon (galactic [[LandfillBeyondTheStars garbage dumpers]]), Hirogen (a culture based on [[BloodSport hunting sentient species]]), the Swarm (a nameless xenophobic...swarm), and the Devore Imperium (xenophobic, telepath-hating militarists, though in this case their uniformity is used to highlight the individual charm of Inspector Kashyk).
* PlankGag: In the episode "Suvival Instinct", Chakotay tried to lug a huge piece of alien sports equipment across the bridge and nearly whacked a visiting alien with it.
* PlausibleDeniability: Eugenics Wars? What are they?
** It probably doesn't help that the Eugenics Wars were supposedly occurring ''at the same time the series aired in real life''.
* PrematureEulogy: Of the [[{{Narm}} Narmy]] kind. One glaring example is in the episode ''Coda'' where Janeway receives four whole minutes of this while floating between life and death, watching it play out. It's to be expected in a show where people die and come back to life every week.
* PrimAndProperBun:
** [[http://memory-alpha.org/wiki/File:Kathryn_Janeway,_2371.jpg Captain Janeway]] had this style for most of the first season. which was known as [[FanNickname The Bun of Steel]]
** The emotionless and formal Seven of Nine used a French pleat for her first 3 seasons on the show.
* PrinciplesZealot: While Janeway has her moments, Seven Of Nine is surely the local queen of this trope. The Doctor also tries to do this once or twice.
* PropheticName: The Intrepid-class ''USS Voyager'' herself. Because the Cowardly-class ''USS Stayathome'' just wouldn't have had the same ring to it.
* PsychicPowers: Kes, sometimes Tuvok.
* QuietlyPerformingSisterShow: As mentioned in the bit at the top, the fans and critics weren't too pleased with the show, but it got good ratings.
* RammingAlwaysWorks: From "Year in Hell": "[[BondOneLiner Time's up]]."
** From "Parallax": "Sometimes you just have to punch your way through."
* RealLifeRelative: Q's "[[YoungerThanTheyLook teenage]]" son was played by John [=DeLancie's=] actual son Keegan [=DeLancie=]. This was apparently somewhat of an accident; Keegan happened to be among the actors being considered for the role and the producers made it clear they didn't want him cast just for the joke. As it turned out Keegan won them over on the part and the existing Father/Son dynamic only made the episode better.
* RedShirt: Averted in the early seasons by giving some screen time to crewmembers who were slated for death in later episodes (i.e. Hogan, Jonas, Carey). But eventually they reverted to bumping off anonymous ensigns by the shuttleload. A notable subversion however occurs in "Latent Image" [[spoiler:where the Doctor is guilt-ridden over his choice to save Harry Kim as opposed to the expendable crewmember.]]
** Joe Carey might be considered a subversion as well. Despite disappearing for years at a time except for flashbacks, the character makes it all the way to the final season before he's killed on an away mission. He is in fact the [[{{Retirony}} last casualty before Voyager makes it back home]]. Most redshirts don't last for the entirety of a series run.
* ReligiousRobot: "Flesh and Blood" is about sentient holograms (also known as photonic lifeforms) rising up against their creators. Their leader believes in the Bajoran faith and spends his free time praying to the prophets.
* ResetButton: Many, many times.
** The reset featured in "Year of Hell" is one of the few fans of the show won't groan at, simply because it was too damn awesome.
* TheRevolutionWillNotBeVilified: Averted in "Resistance", but somehow there's never any mention of the Maquis' terrorist origins. Except for [[SociopathicSoldier Suder]] of course.
** At one point Chakotay, a Maquis member who fought to protect his land from the Cardassians, says something like "A man does not own land.", proving himself either to have changed his mind or to be somewhat of a hypocrite.
* ARiddleWrappedInAMysteryInsideAnEnigma: In the episode "Riddles," The Doctor refers to the Vulcan brain as "a puzzle wrapped inside an enigma housed inside a cranium."
* {{Robosexual}}: The EMH apparently gets around, especially in one of his TimeSkip episodes.
* RunningGag: Every single pot roast mentioned on the series was burnt to hell.
* SceneryPorn: The [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ij1TDX6WH4 opening title sequence]] is ''gorgeous''.
* SerkisFolk: Species 8472, and the aliens in "Equinox".
* SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale: Think about how large the Voyager would have to be to cast that reflection on the rings of the planet in the opening titles...
* SexyDiscretionShot: An episode involving one of the Doctor's romances had one that was so discreet that even Robert Picardo didn't know about it until a much later episode referenced his having had sex and he asked the writers about it.
* ShinyLookingSpaceships: USS Voyager
* ShownTheirWork: In "Meld," the death of Ensign Darwin is proven as a murder using real forensic science rather than made-up technobabble, which is frankly a rarity on the later Star Trek shows.
** On the other hand the Doctor says "The DNA doesn't lie." This has never stopped defence attorneys.
*** Though it does help that Federation forensics technology is demonstrably better than ours is.
* ShowWithinAShow: In several episodes Janeway enters a holodeck program that was apparently going to turn out to be a ghost story, but [[AbortedArc this got dropped]] (it didn't help that it was being told slowly over the teasers for several episodes, and had nothing to do with the episode itself). A more successful example was ''The Adventures of Captain Proton!'', a homage to 1930s sci-fi adventures like ''[[Film/FlashGordonSerial Flash Gordon]]'' and ''BuckRogers''.
** An Alien version of this occurs, showing an evil version of the Voyager crew as propaganda between two races of aliens, until a copy of The Doctor sets the record straight... and then the entire show-within-a-show is shown to, ''itself'' be a [[ShowWithinAShow show within a show within a show.]]
* SpaceClouds: In "Year of Hell", a crippled Voyager hides inside a nebula so dense that it produces a visible fog inside the ship's corridors. Captain Janeway even orders the hull breaches sealed to avoid having an "indoor nebula."
* SpaceIsAnOcean: In the episode "Day of Honor," Paris and Torres put on spacesuits and abandon their doomed shuttlecraft. As they drift in space awaiting rescue, they bob up and down as if floating in an ocean.
* SpaceIsNoisy
* SpikeShooter: There's a species of sentient technology-dependent [[EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs hadrosaur]] [[SomewhereAPaleontologistIsCrying descendants]] that shoot sedative-laced barbs from their fingers.
* SpinoffSendoff: The pilot, "Caretaker", starts with Voyager docked at Deep Space Nine, with Quark trying to con Harry Kim.
* StatusQuoIsGod: One of the, if not ''the'' biggest complaints leveled against the show.
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* TechnoBabble: With the best of them.
* TerminallyDependentSociety: The Ocampan dependence on the Caretaker array. How dependant? We later learn that an Ocampan can only ever have a single child. Assuming that this is one child per Ocampa, male or female, every early death or miscarriage permanently reduces the Ocampan population.
** The Caretaker gave them 5 years worth of power for the city before his death. Given how dependent on him the Ocampans were, its doubtful they could figure out for themselves a different power-source. The forcefield protecting them from outsiders will most likely fail as the power dwindles and they'll eventually have to leave for the surface... ''where the Kazon are.'' [[FridgeBrilliance This is probably why Kes is so pissed off in "Fury"]].
* TheyStillBelongToUsLecture: The Borg Queen delivers a number of these lectures about Seven.
* {{Thoughtcrime}}: There was an episode where they came across a people who were extremely telepathic, so sensitive that any extreme emotions would incite them to act out on those feelings; having violent thoughts was a crime in and of itself. Torres was put under trial for having a brief violent thought when someone bumped into her, and Tuvok's investigation into the planet's culture found a sort of "violent thoughts" Black Market. Of course it examined the nature that when something was so taboo it meant their own people were unable to handle it when confronted with the situation.
* ThirdPersonPerson:
-->'''Dreadnought''': "False information has been entered into ''Dreadnought''[='=]s navigational sensor array."\\
'''Paris''': "When a bomb starts talking about itself in the third person, I get worried."
* TimTaylorTechnology
* TransformationSequence: Overlaps with WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome in "Tinkor, Tailor, Doctor, Spy". The Doctor's transformation into the ECH is accompanied by a dramatic zoom on the Doctor's lapel as the pips appear one by one.
* TwoDSpace: Like ''all'' Star Trek, though the large holographic Astrometrics display did avert this somewhat.
* TwoRoadsBeforeYou
* {{Understatement}}: In "Scientific Method," Janeway decides to fly ''Voyager'' between two stars, hoping to destroy the ships of some aliens who have been experimenting on the crew in the process, despite Tuvok's warning that the odds of their survival are "one in twenty, at best." Tuvok tells her that it's a far more reckless course of action than he's come to expect from her. After they manage to get away, Janeway comments to Tuvok that she never knew he thought of her as "reckless." Tuvok says that it was a poor choice of words: "It was clearly an understatement."
** She had an excuse in this case -- Janeway herself makes it clear that the aliens' experiments to push her to her limits through prolonged stress had driven her, well, crazy. If you thought she was bad ''before''...
* UnitConfusion
* UnPaused: The Doctor, when Seven switches him off in the middle of a sentence.
* {{UST}}: Plenty of this between Janeway and Chakotay, but more so in early seasons.
** Mostly due to the influence of Jeri Taylor, who wrote the majority of the episodes where this is prevalent. After she took a backseat as a writer, this promptly vanished.
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* VisionQuest: Chakotay [[MagicalNativeAmerican consults his spirit guide]] about once a season, or helps someone else do so.
* WeAreAsMayflies: Kes and the other Ocampa have an average lifespan of less than a decade in length.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: A Borg baby is brought on board along with several Borg children. Icheb stays while the other children are returned to their parents in a later episode, but there's never any mention of what happened to the baby.
** Whatever happened to Suspiria, the Female Caretaker?
* WhatMeasureIsANonhuman: With a holographic Doctor, they question of whether a projection of HardLight and a "soul" of algorithms arises a few times. This includes encountering a race of photonic creatures in a different plane, and another which considers holographic programs to be insurgents. Even what rights the Doctor has on the ship has been explored, with him even trying to resign in one episode.
* WhatTheHellHero: Seven calls Janeway on this when she and the crew intend to delete memories causing the Doctor to almost literally [[HeroicBSOD BSOD]] instead of trying to work through his problems psychologically. She wasn't around to object the first time they did it.
** Also in "Hope and Fear" with the alien blaming Janeway's decision to back the Borg against Species 8472. As the latter were forced to retreat, the Borg were able to go on and assimilate his world.
** Remember back in the TNG episode "A Measure of a Man" where Picard chewed out Starfleet who were planning to disassemble Data so they could build Androids to serve on Federation vessels, arguing that it was tantamount to them actively perpetuating a Slave-Race? Well apparently Starfleet doesn't, as its revealed in "Lifeline" that they reprogrammed every single EMH Mk I in the Alpha Quadrant to mine Dilithium asteroids.
* WritersCannotDoMath: [[http://www.mi6forums.co.uk/viewtopic.php?p=4713264#4713264 The character biographies]], [[http://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/inconsistencies/inconsistencies-voy.htm the shuttlecraft complement, the number of torpedoes, the crewmembers]]...
* WroteTheBook: In the finale, a future Starfleet instructor introduces Admiral Janeway as "the person who, literally, wrote the book on the Borg."
* YellowBrickRoad: Though when keeping to the path is the only way to progress ''and'' StatusQuoIsGod...
* YouCantGoHomeAgain: This is especially true for Neelix, whose homeworld was destroyed, and Icheb, whose parents want only to use him as a weapon.
* YouKeepUsingThatWord: Various crewmembers describe things from the 19th and 20th century as being "Ancient", which is like saying that Roman Chariots and Nuclear Weapons are relatively ''close'' historically. Even more egregious considering that they are only 400 years downwind from the things they are describing.
* YouLookFamiliar
* YouNeverDidThatForMe: Janeway, upon learning that her best friend Tuvok used to make tea for [[StarTrekVITheUndiscoveredCountry then-Captain Sulu]], complains in a mock-annoyed fashion that he never made ''her'' tea! In the novelization of that episode, he notes, quite reasonably, that she prefers coffee.
* YouTubePoop: Growing in popularity.
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!!There are also several shows [[ShowWithinAShow Shows Within a Show]]. They contain examples of:
[[folder:The Adventures of Captain Proton!]]
* AcCENTUponTheWrongSylLABle: Chaotica.
* AppliedPhlebotinum: Arachnia's vial of [[LoveIsInTheAir irresistable pheromones]]. Dr Chaotica's [[DeflectorShields Lightning Shield]].
* BBCQuarry: Harry Kim points out that "Planet X" looks identical to "The Mines of Mercury" that they visited in the last adventure.
* ChainedToARock: Constance Goodheart is tied to a pillar prior to her being presented to Queen Arachnia as a "supreme sacrifice".
* CliffhangerCopout: Paris and Kim are watching a recap of last week's Proton episode, which shows their rocketship dramatically bursting into flame.
-->'''Kim:''' We didn't burst into flame in the last chapter! Why are these recaps so inaccurate?
-->'''Paris:''' Well they brought people back to the theaters.
-->'''Kim:''' Cliffhangers!
-->'''Paris:''' The lost art of hyperbole.
* DamselInDistress: Parodied in the [[MsFanservice voluptuous form]] of Constance Goodheart, who "tags along on all the missions" for the sole purpose of getting captured by {{Mad Scientist}}s, and whose only dialogue is an [[ScreamingWoman ear-piercing scream]].
** HilarityEnsues when Tom tries to put ''Seven of Nine'' in this role. She goes OffTheRails quickly.
* DeliberatelyMonochrome
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Captain Janeway (as [[TheVamp Arachnia]]) stroking Chaotica's "[[DeathRay formidable weapon]]".
* DopeSlap: Paris gives this to Satan's Robot when it scares off the alien they're trying to make FirstContact with. The Robot shambles off muttering sulkily about alien invaders.
* EmperorScientist / MadScientist / BigBad: [[MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate Doctor]] Chaotica, [[TheMagnificent Ruler of the Cosmos!]]
* EvilLaugh: Chaotica, whose other villain tropes include EvilEyebrows, BeardOfEvil, PaidHarem, BigNo, YouHaveFailedMe, YouFool, [[KneelBeforeZod "Kneel before Chaotica!"]], LonelyAtTheTop, and "Full power to the DeathRay!"
* FemmeFatale: Queen Arachnia. Plus the Twin Mistresses of Evil, Demonica and Malicia.
* GenreSavvy: Tom Paris knows something's gone wrong in "Bride of Chaotica!" because Constance Goodheart has been killed, and that [[BoringInvincibleHero never happens to the Good Guys]]. Likewise he tries to warn Captain Janeway of Chaotica's fondness for [[BoobyTrap hidden traps]], but she falls into one anyway.
* InvincibleHero
-->'''Chaotica:''' But I saw you fall into the fiery mouth of that volcano!\\
'''Proton:''' It takes more than a little lava to stop Captain Proton.
* KillerRobot: Parodied in the [[TinCanRobot clunky mechanical form]] of Satan's Robot. [[InformedAbility Supposedly terrifying]] but actually slow-moving, easily disabled, and rather pathetic.
* LargeHam: Frankly, the whole point of playing the program. Chaotica is the king of this, but also seen with the Doctor and Captain Janeway whose initial reaction is either contempt or amusement, but who end up playing their roles with gusto. Hilariously subverted though by Seven of Nine in "Night" (see OffTheRails, below.)
* LoveIsInTheAir: While [[ChainedToARock Tied To a Pillar]] Janeway uses Arachnia's vial of "irresistable pheromones" to make Dr Chaotica release her. Unfortunately Chaotica moves out of sniffing range, leaving her to get slobbered over by his ugly henchman Lonzak instead.
* TheMagnificent: Captain Proton: Spaceman First Class, protector of Earth, scourge of intergalactic evil...at your service.
* {{Mooks}}: Chaotica's [[FacelessGoons 'Army of Evil']], plus his [[SurroundedByIdiots bumbling henchman]] Lonzak.
* OffTheRails: In "Night" Tom Paris ropes in Seven to play the DamselInDistress. Upon being menaced by the KillerRobot, Seven calmly responds:
-->'''Seven:''' I am Borg. ''(yanks out robot's wiring, disabling it)'' The robot has been neutralized. May I leave now?
* RoboSpeak: Satan's Robot with its CatchPhrase: "SUR-REND-DER!" Also ElectronicSpeechImpediment whenever it gets damaged.
* RolePlayingGame: That's what any holonovel is.
* ShotMidSentence: Lonzak is raygunned by Proton and Buster as he's hamming his way through his Roaring Speech of Revenge.
-->"Surprised? You thought I had [[NotQuiteDead perished in that den of crocodiles]]. I SURVIVED! CLINGING to the thought that I would ONE DAY__''Arrrrgh!''"
* {{Sidekick}}: Ensign Harry Kim plays 'Buster', a ShoutOut to Buster Crabbe who famously played Flash Gordon in the [[Film/FlashGordonSerial 1930s film serials]].
* SpaceDoesNotWorkThatWay: Parodied in "Thirty Days" where Proton is seen flying through outer space [[BatmanCanBreatheInSpace protected by a leather jacket and flying goggles]].
* StrappedToAnOperatingTable: Janeway in "Shattered".
* SupervillainLair: Doctor Chaotica's [[DoomyDoomsOfDoom Fortress of Doom]].
* TooKinkyToTorture: Harry Kim greatly enjoys being chained up by the [[TwinThreesomeFantasy Delaney Sisters]] and threatened with enslavement via their evil [[MindProbe Brain Probe]], so much so that he [[ComplainingAboutRescuesTheyDontLike insists Captain Proton not be hasty in his rescue]].
* YouJustRuinedTheShot: In "Bride Of Chaotica!" [[EnergyBeings photonic aliens]] mistake the simulation for reality and go to war with Chaotica.
* {{Zeerust}}: It's several centuries old by the time of ''Voyager''.
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[[folder:Insurrection Alpha]]
* DependingOnTheWriter: [[spoiler:The story has four different authors, each with a different purpose.]]
* DeusExMachina: [[spoiler:Janeway rewrites the program to have an alien ship come to their aid, giving Tuvok time to snag a phaser rifle.]] At the end of the episode, the characters are [[ConversationalTroping sitting around, talking about the program]] and Tuvok compliments Janeway on this move. "Who says deus ex machina is an outdated literary device?" she responds.
* DiabolusExMachina: [[spoiler:Seska programs the Holodeck to improvise them.]]
* EverythingIsTryingToKillYou: Seska is quite the sadist.
* ExecutiveMeddling: Janeway's insistence that the Holo-novel be completed over the wishes of the original author could be seen as a bit of this.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Torres is complaining that the holonovel doesn't have any romance.
-->'''Paris:''' I could add a steamy love scene between the [[OfficialCouple Starfleet conn officer and the Maquis engineer]].\\
'''Torres:''' Oh, ''that's'' realistic!
* HeyIKnowYou
* HolodeckMalfunction
* HypocriticalHumor: After Paris tells Tuvok that he's going to have Janeway execute the mutineers, Tuvok complains that this is against Janeway's established personality and that characters should not deviate so tremendously. Neelix walks over and insists that he would never betray the captain like he did in the holonovel. Paris makes fun of Tuvok over this point. Paris is being a bit unfair though. Tuvok hadn't touched the program in years, and in fact tried to delete the program because he got so much wrong.
* KillerGameMaster
* NoEnding: [[spoiler:Or so Tuvok thought.]]
* OffTheRails
* OhCrap
* OutOfCharacter: First, Tuvok got Neelix's character completely wrong. Then Tom Paris wants to have Janeway execute all the mutineers. [[spoiler:And when Seska got at the character profiles...]]
* {{Railroading}}: [[spoiler:Seska programmed the holodeck to do this when Tuvok and Paris were on the verge of getting the upper hand.]]
* TheReveal: Everyone assumes that ''Insurrection Alpha'' is an action-adventure holonovel with some TakeThat jabs at Janeway's command decisions. [[spoiler:It turns out to be a [[UnwinnableTrainingSimulation program created by Tuvok to train his security officers]] against a Maquis mutiny.]]
* TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized: [[spoiler:Once Seska gets a hold of the story.]]
* SelfFulfillingProphecy: When the Maquis and Starfleet crewmembers end up [[EnemyMine working well together]], Tuvok realises his program could itself create tensions between the two groups and deletes it. Or so he thinks. Tuvok's expectations are subverted when they find it and enjoy it.
* WhoWritesThisCrap: Paris's comment the first time he runs the program when the holographic Tuvok in the brig suggests that they might need to spend as long as a week observing their captors for weaknesses. "A week?! Who wrote this stuff?"
* WriterOnBoard: Neelix's HeelFaceTurn in the original program is undoubtedly due to Tuvok's dislike of the AlienScrappy, as well as his initial mistrust. As Tuvok had just been complaining about Tom's OutOfCharacter revisions, Tom doesn't hesitate to call him on it. That being said, Tuvok abandoned and tried to delete the program over two years prior when his predictions failed to manifest.
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[[folder:The Voyager Encounter]]
* AlternateRealityEpisode: This was clearly meant to be ''Star Trek Voyager's'' version of an EvilTwin MirrorUniverse episode, though unfortunately it lacks the BareYourMidriff uniforms and blatant HoYay.
* BadassCrew: Taken to its most terrifying extreme, the warship ''Voyager'''s crew are clearly insane. Even ''Neelix'' manages to get in an awesome line in a putdown to Paris.
* BrickJoke: Also leading to a CallBack that in "Worst Case Scenario", Tom Paris suggests that a holographic Janeway execute some mutineers. We see this version of a holographic Janeway do just that to hostages.
* CallBack
* CoolStarship: It has to be said, the alternate ''Voyager'' armed to the teeth with guns isn't a bad sight.
* DependingOnTheWriter: The curator's initial idea when he finds the Doctor is to use him to help him alter the program to make it a more accurate simulation. He admits that over the years they've had to extrapolate certain things to fill in the gaps.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: The biased depiction of the Vaskan leader has him going to war with the Kyrians simply to steal their land. He contracts Voyager as mercenaries to accomplish this, but even he objects on moral grounds and tries to cancel the deal when Janeway decides to effect massive genocide of the Kyrians as the best solution.
* FinalSolution: Evil Janeway's genocide of the Kyrians, which apparently kills at least 900,000 people.
* FutureImperfect: The historian's interpretation of the event is... misguided, to say the least. This is due to the fact that he barely has any data to work with and a heavy bias against the Vaskans. The crew wear fascist uniforms and are portrayed as violent sociopaths. The Doctor is an android. Seven of Nine is still a Borg leading a contingent of captured drones. Even ''Voyager'' herself has become a darkly-lit ship, armed to the teeth and referred to as a warship.
* HandOfDeath: The evil ''Voyager'' crew all wear black gloves.
* HistoricalBadassUpgrade: See BadassCrew and CoolStarship above.
* HistoricalHeroUpgrade: The Kyrians, Tetran in particular.
* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: The Voyager crew and the Vaskans.
* MyFriendsAndZoidberg: The Doctor points out that the way his colleagues have been depicted in the historical recreation has morphed them into violent thugs, but he actually finds Paris to be pretty well portrayed (who from what we've seen admittedly is not depicted so much as a bloodthirsty villain rather than just cocky and prone to skirt-chasing).
-->These weren't the people I knew! They didn't behave like this! [{{Beat}}] Well, except for Mr. Paris.
* PoliticallyCorrectHistory: The Kyrian recreation portrays Tedran as a martyr for the Kyrians who was executed by Janeway while trying to stop an alliance between the Vaskans and ''Voyager''. Later averted when it's revealed that ''Voyager'' was merely trading with the Vaskans when Tedran attacked unprovoked, tried to loot the ship, and then was killed by the Vaskan ambassador without warning.
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: The Doctor himself in this episode, or rather his backup copy, which is reactivated 700 years later.
* ShowWithinAShow: The reveal that the Doctor setting the events of the ''Voyager'' recreation straight were in turn ''themselves'' another recreation at the same museum, many years later.
* TortureTechnician: The Doctor is portrayed as this, much to his horror.
* WriterOnBoard: Also subverted; the original recreation was this, while the Doctor and the curator are seen this way by the historical council when they try to correct it.
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